Individual Liberty and the Responsibility to Protect: Toward a Neolibertarian Foreign Policy

It has become conventional wisdom that libertarianism stands opposed to overseas military intervention in principle, in particular after the military (mis)adventures of the United States in recent decades. This conventional wisdom is challenged in this contribution, relying on the cosmopolitan nature of libertarian minarchist principles. Using the contemporary notion of the responsibility to protect, a responsibility to protect liberty that looks more favorably upon the use of military force to protect and advance the liberty and property rights of individuals across the globe is formulated.