Humanitarian intervention

March 23, 1999 marked the beginning of the NATO bombing campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia lasting three months. The rationale for the campaign was on the basis of “humanitarian intervention.” It was said to be in prevention of the ethnic cleansing of the Kosovar Albanians of Siberia by the authoritative regime of Slobodan Milosevic. The moral justification of this conflict has since been contested with the validity debated by a variety of theoretical schools of thought. This…

basis of “humanitarian intervention.” It was said to be in prevention of the ethnic cleansing of the Kosovar Albanians of Siberia by the authoritative regime of Slobodan Milosevic. The moral justification of this conflict has since been contested by a variety of theoretical schools of thought. This essay will use the revisions to the Legalist Paradigm presented by Walzer to prove the moral impermissibility of NATOs intervention in Kosovo. To assess the moral justification of the intervention,…

clearly contradictory to that article. The positivists also are not able to explain state and UN actions and practice. They declare that the Charter has explicitly prohibited intervention yet states have not been deterred from extra-UN humanitarian intervention. The United Nations has never clearly declared these interventions as illegal. Furthermore, opinio juris among the states regarding…

always found in humanitarian intervention. The pursuit of safeguarding the rights of all those in the “spectrum of races and religions” has its basis in the idea that human rights are self-evident and universal. The protection of universal rights has been allotted to nations who hold great power yet these nations assume that genocide is a concept of the past-with the tragedies of each new genocide isolated from those of the previous genocide. Two genocides commonly cited by humanitarian…

implement UN sanctions on Kosovo and Milošević’s government, along with the influence of the media may have encouraged further negotiations, with less civilian casualties and displacement. With regards to the Kosovo conflict, it is accepted that humanitarian intervention in this case was the acceptable move. However, the NATO strategy for combating the conflict was arguably flawed, leading to an estimated 700,000 Kosovars to be expelled from their country, with many more of the population…

genocide in human history. By comparing the circumstances surrounding a potential international intervention to depose the North Korean regime to the principles of just war articulated in Seyom Brown’s The Just War Tradition, we can evaluate whether such an intervention would be just. If the ad bellum “just cause” justifications for war were the only metric for deciding the justice of an intervention in North Korea, then the war would certainly be just. But the resulting massive loss of life and…

years, Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi. The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) justified the Libya Intervention for NATO allies on the grounds of a humanitarian threat thought to occur at the direction of Gaddafi. However, the humanitarian crisis never occurred. Thus, I conclude that the United States, UNSC, and the NATO allies involved in the Intervention are responsible for Libya’s present-day humanitarian catastrophe, destabilization, and the killing of Gaddafi. In this paper I will provide a…

nature in humanitarian intervention. By intervening to try to protect rights, rights are violated. Because of this, it is not plausible that intervening wars are a useful tool to promote rights in a foreign country (Norman 2013). However, Walzer suggests that such wars are beneficial given that “all states have an interest in global stability and global humanity” (2004, p. 74). For Caney (2005), the probability of success principle is a major underpinning for the case of humanitarian…

human rights occur. The protection of human rights is a basic law a majority of states enforce. However, when a violation of these basic rights is tested the way in which states react is key to understanding the complexity of humanitarian intervention. Humanitarian intervention considers many arguments, the main being responsibility versus sovereignty and the destabilization of a preexisting, tyrannical regime. Although both arguments are valid for discussion, many people fail to see this…

within a territory’ (Philpott, 2001) and ‘non intervention in the internal affairs of other states’ (Krasner, 2004). However the end of the Cold War was a pivotal turning point in history that spurred a number of historical changes…