TY  - JOUR
TI  - A Few Words on Non-intervention
T2  - The Russian Sociological Review
IS  - The Russian Sociological Review
KW  - John Stuart Mill
KW  - philosophy of war
KW  - just war
KW  - intervention
KW  - doctrine of non-intervention
KW  - British Empire
KW  - East India Company
KW  - slavery
KW  - freedom
KW  - international morality
AB  - The essay "A Few Words on Non-intervention" by British philosopher and politician John Stuart Mill, published in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country in December, 1859, has been translated into Russian for the first time for this issue of the Russian Sociological Review. Here, Mill justifies the foreign policy of the British Empire, and considers the criteria when the doctrine of non-intervention may be ignored in the sphere of international relations. There are three cases that make legitimate military intervention possible: (1) the overcoming of the doctrine of non-intervention when it is necessary to confront humanitarian disasters such as slavery; (2) an intervention allowing people to be given their freedom and to protect their right of self-determination; (3) an intervention as a tool to fight against tyranny.
AU  - John Stuart Mill
UR  - https://sociologica.hse.ru/en/2020-19-3/403296910.html
PY  - 2020
SP  - 281-299
VL  - 19