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Episode 97: Lucia Rafanelli - Promoting Justice Across Borders

The Political Theory Review

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Three Key Objections to Reform Interventions

Kant is very sceptical of any kind of intervention on the part of states into the internal sovereignty of other countries. You discuss three different objections that theorists have against reform a lat t interventions. The idea being that an intervener trying to impose a particular conception of justice, a particular idea of what justice requires, on people in another society may very well not endorse that conception of justice. That's one of the key objections to reform intervention. And then another one is that reform intervention disregards, or disrespects, in some way, the existing, perhaps legitimate, political institutions of recipient societies. So we get thee sort of three big objections against intervention which look like they're very persuasive against

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