Abstract
Many of the moral dilemmas with which we are faced in the international arena today arise from uncertainty over the relative value to be attached to sovereignty and to human rights, to states and to human beings. A vigorous debate is ongoing within the fields of international law, political philosophy and international relations, as well as in the domain of practical politics.1 The debate has implications for peace and security, not least for attitudes towards humanitarian intervention.
Politics will, to the end of history, be an area where conscience and power meet, where the ethical and coercive factors of human life will interpenetrate and work out their tentative and uneasy compromises. (Niebuhr 1947: 4)
All healthy human action, and therefore all healthy thought, must establish a balance between utopia and reality. (Carr 1940: 17)
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Thomas, C., Reader, M. (1998). Human Rights and Intervention: A Case for Caution. In: Pieterse, J.N. (eds) World Orders in the Making. Institute of Social Studies, The Hague. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26894-8_4
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