Vol. 8 No. 2 (2015): Spring 2015
Articles

The Potential Benefits of Early, Neutral Intervention in Revolutions: Buchanan's Compelling Case for a Shift in Thinking

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  • Thomas Sutton II
DOI: https://doi.org/10.37513/ciar.v8i2.469

Published 2015-05-01

How to Cite

Sutton II, T. (2015). The Potential Benefits of Early, Neutral Intervention in Revolutions: Buchanan’s Compelling Case for a Shift in Thinking. Cornell International Affairs Review, 8(2). https://doi.org/10.37513/ciar.v8i2.469

Abstract

This paper discusses Allen Buchanan’s proposed shift in intervention found in his essay, “The Ethics of Revolution and its Implication for the Ethics of Intervention,” and posits that it successfully calls into question other popular principles of intervention. The overall contention of the paper is that Buchanan’s form of intervention can theoretically prevent much more harm than the popular Mill’s Principle and the Consent Principle and seems to overcome the challenges plaguing those principles.

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