SOCIOL 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 42: Humanitarian Intervention, Geopolitics, 2011 Military Intervention In Libya
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Humanitarian intervention doesn"t actually promote humanitarian values. It might save lives in the short run. But it will do little to alleviate the underlying causes of human. There are many cases of human suffering and human rights violations around the world. Majority of them do not result in military humanitarian intervention. In the past: limited action in rwanda, sudan. If a country succeeds in framing violations as domestic, sovereign matter (e. g. civil war or terrorism rather than genocide), intervention less likely. Example: myanmar has called rohingya groups terrorists, framing the. Geopolitics in un security council crisis as a domestic problem of terrorism. Remember that humanitarian intervention most legitimate if authorized by un. Remember that there are five permanent members of the un security council that have veto powers. Their views are critical in terms of whether an authorization for humanitarian intervention will go through. If they are allies of the offending regime, they will likely veto intervention!
