The NATO military intervention in Kosovo has initiated a debateon a series of ethical issues in contemporary world politics. Thedebate involves moral judgment and choices in defining basic prin-ciples and norms in int...The NATO military intervention in Kosovo has initiated a debateon a series of ethical issues in contemporary world politics. Thedebate involves moral judgment and choices in defining basic prin-ciples and norms in international society in the new century. Thearticle investigates the war from the angle of ethical implications ofthe relationship between great powers and weak powers, ethnicrelations, and international intervention. The security of weakercountries, the author argues, depends on self-help as well as onnon-intervention under the circumstance of power imbalance in thepost-Cold War world. Of the two factors, non-intervention ismore significant in the sense Of legal principle and morality.展开更多
文摘The NATO military intervention in Kosovo has initiated a debateon a series of ethical issues in contemporary world politics. Thedebate involves moral judgment and choices in defining basic prin-ciples and norms in international society in the new century. Thearticle investigates the war from the angle of ethical implications ofthe relationship between great powers and weak powers, ethnicrelations, and international intervention. The security of weakercountries, the author argues, depends on self-help as well as onnon-intervention under the circumstance of power imbalance in thepost-Cold War world. Of the two factors, non-intervention ismore significant in the sense Of legal principle and morality.
