8 - Interventions

Summary

While it opposes states and state action, radical liberal natural law theory also provides vigorous support for any existing state’s adoption of an anti-militarist, anti-imperialist foreign policy. Anti-interventionism and anti-imperialism have been persistently, if not universally, valued in the liberal tradition. Chapter 8 brings a natural law perspective critically to bear on an alternative liberal view, an attempt to defend a chastened militarism as a liberal option.