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Humanitarian Military Intervention and World Politics

Humanitarian Military Intervention and World Politics. What is humanitarian military intervention? Political, legal and moral issues The Solidarist case for humanitarian military intervention Objections for legitimizing humanitarian military intervention.

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Humanitarian Military Intervention and World Politics

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  1. Humanitarian Military Intervention and World Politics • What is humanitarian military intervention? • Political, legal and moral issues • The Solidarist case for humanitarian military intervention • Objections for legitimizing humanitarian military intervention

  2. What is humanitarian military intervention? • Patterns of intervention in conflict situations post Cold War: -boundaries between peacekeeping (under the Chapter VI of the UN Charter) and peace enforcement (under the Chapter VII of the UN Charter) -is there a ‘hybrid’ type of operation? -practical aspects: IFOR and SFOR in Bosnia and Herzegovina; Somalia 1993 • Definition of humanitarian military intervention/ limited intervention/ peace enforcement ‘dictatorial or coercive interference in the sphere of jurisdiction of sovereign state to protect or relieve individuals facing mass oppression or genocide’ (Knudsen: 1997, 171).

  3. Legal/ moral authority and humanitarian military intervention engagement • The international law: the UN Charter and the principles of sovereignty and non-intervention • Chapter VII of the UN Charter • Connecting international peace and security with violations of international humanitarian law: UNSCRs 688 and 794; customary law • Justification issues: threshold for humanitarian law violation; what constitutes legitimacy; multilaterality of the intervention; the level of humanitarian ambition; the impartiality problem; and the effect/ security aspect of the involvement

  4. The Solidarist case for humanitarian military intervention • Moral justification- humanitarian motivation of these operations • Political argument • Security considerations

  5. Objections for legitimizing humanitarian military intervention • States do not intervene for primarily humanitarian reasons • States are not allowed to risk their soldiers’ lives on humanitarian crusades • Disagreement on what principles should govern a right of humanitarian intervention • The effectiveness of such operations is questioned

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