Morality vs. Legality: European Responses to the Changing Norms of Military Intervention
This article argues that the diverging European positions on the Iraq intervention reflected distinct approaches to the international normative framework regulating the use of force. New security threats by global terrorist networks as well as calls for intervention in cases of human rights violatio...
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description | This article argues that the diverging European positions on the Iraq intervention reflected distinct approaches to the international normative framework regulating the use of force. New security threats by global terrorist networks as well as calls for intervention in cases of human rights violations have challenged the existing criteria for legitimate military intervention. It identifies two types of positions – legal and moral. Evidence for the validity of this distinction is provided by an examination of the foreign policy lines adopted by Germany, Poland and the United Kingdom. Their contending approaches to the use of force can be expected to cause considerable difficulty in formulating a concerted European response to the changing norms of military intervention. |
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spelling | doaj.art-959b357584a644629e95ed0e2edeab5f2022-12-21T22:35:59ZengUACESJournal of Contemporary European Research1815-347X2007-04-0131Morality vs. Legality: European Responses to the Changing Norms of Military InterventionAleksandra Krakiewicz0University of OxfordThis article argues that the diverging European positions on the Iraq intervention reflected distinct approaches to the international normative framework regulating the use of force. New security threats by global terrorist networks as well as calls for intervention in cases of human rights violations have challenged the existing criteria for legitimate military intervention. It identifies two types of positions – legal and moral. Evidence for the validity of this distinction is provided by an examination of the foreign policy lines adopted by Germany, Poland and the United Kingdom. Their contending approaches to the use of force can be expected to cause considerable difficulty in formulating a concerted European response to the changing norms of military intervention.https://jcer.net/index.php/jcer/article/view/30military interventionUKPolandGermany |
spellingShingle | Aleksandra Krakiewicz Morality vs. Legality: European Responses to the Changing Norms of Military Intervention Journal of Contemporary European Research military intervention UK Poland Germany |
title | Morality vs. Legality: European Responses to the Changing Norms of Military Intervention |
title_full | Morality vs. Legality: European Responses to the Changing Norms of Military Intervention |
title_fullStr | Morality vs. Legality: European Responses to the Changing Norms of Military Intervention |
title_full_unstemmed | Morality vs. Legality: European Responses to the Changing Norms of Military Intervention |
title_short | Morality vs. Legality: European Responses to the Changing Norms of Military Intervention |
title_sort | morality vs legality european responses to the changing norms of military intervention |
topic | military intervention UK Poland Germany |
url | https://jcer.net/index.php/jcer/article/view/30 |
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