• Humanitarian intervention is the use or threat of military force by a state (or states) across borders with the intent of ending severe and widespread...
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    countries to the humanitarian disaster that was occurring there. Thus, few members of the Yugoslav public expected NATO intervention, instead thinking...
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  • when there is overwhelming humanitarian necessity, cases such as the no fly zones over Iraq in 1991, the 1827 intervention by Britain, France and Russia...
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  • from its intervention. Since the end of the Cold War, new emergent norms of humanitarian intervention are challenging the norm of non-intervention, based...
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  • to engage in humanitarian intervention unless the intervention is partly rooted in self-interest. The appearance that the intervention is not strictly...
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  • suffering in the latter state (See, humanitarian intervention). Under the traditional security paradigm, humanitarian intervention is contentious. As discussed...
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    "From Famine Relief to 'Humanitarian War': The US and UN Intervention in Somalia". Saving Strangers: Humanitarian Intervention in International Society...
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  • given rise to a great deal of comparative theoretical work on humanitarian intervention and peacekeeping. In her book Sherene Razack asks if it was just...
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    Western military intervention suggested that resources—not democratic or humanitarian concerns—were the real impetus for the intervention, among them a journalist...
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  • on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS) was an ad hoc commission of participants which in 2001 worked to popularize the concept of humanitarian intervention...
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  • parties, or by the international community in the case of a humanitarian intervention. Humanitarian corridors were used frequently during the Syrian Civil...
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  • centuries, but has faced recent challenges from advocates of humanitarian intervention. A series of treaties made up the Peace of Westphalia, which has...
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  • are also more controversial claims by some states of a right of humanitarian intervention, reprisals and the protection of nationals abroad. The Security...
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    to humanitarian aid in post-disasters, conflicts, and complex emergencies is a major concern for humanitarian actors. To win assent for interventions, aid...
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  • force for humanitarian purposes "where a strong moral case could be made", and he outlined a set of criteria for intervention. The intervention in Sierra...
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    Humanitarianism in Africa (category Humanitarian aid)
    of promoting humanitarianism in Africa have been foreign aid, humanitarian intervention, and UN sanctioned peacekeeping. Starting in the 1960s, aid to...
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  • Hard Choices: Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention is a non-fiction compilation book about humanitarianism on the international arena, edited by...
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    Iraq from September 2004 to December 2008, carrying out humanitarian aid, humanitarian intervention, peacekeeping, providing medical assistance to people...
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    while the US State Department wanted to set a precedent for humanitarian military intervention in the post-Cold War era. On 9 December 1992, American troops...
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  • position against a War against Iran. In 2012, VFP opposed military “humanitarian intervention” in Libya and in Syria as "opposition to all war is the official...
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    international framework for "ideal humanitarian intervention". Chesterman does not believe that "ideal humanitarian intervention" exists; according to Krisch...
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    A humanitarian crisis (or sometimes humanitarian disaster) is defined as a singular event or a series of events that are threatening in terms of health...
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    against a Member of the United Nations." Gun boat diplomacy Humanitarian intervention Interventionism (politics) Pacification Police action United Nations Charter...
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    Dutch famine of 1944–1945 (category Humanitarian crises in the aftermath of World War II)
    ingredients) they consumed in months. The following month, more humanitarian interventions took place, this time by airdrops. From 29 April to 7 May Operation...
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    of nonintervention and readiness. Krauthammer opposed purely "humanitarian intervention" (with the exception of overt genocide). While he supported the...
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  • (2011). "Towards a history of humanitarian intervention". In Brendan Simms; D. J. B. Trim (eds.). Humanitarian Intervention: A History. Cambridge University...
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  • remedy genocide or human rights violations, as the legality of humanitarian intervention is heavily disputed. The same goes for Russia's implicit reliance...
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    South, with so many tens or hundreds of thousands of deaths that humanitarian intervention was called for to prevent the threatened bloodshed. Chancellor...
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    "From Famine Relief to 'Humanitarian War': The US and UN Intervention in Somalia". Saving Strangers: Humanitarian Intervention in International Society...
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    self-determination; for others, Wilsonianism is the exemplar of humanitarian intervention around the world,' making U.S. foreign policy a paragon of carefully...
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