POLI SCI 317 Study Guide - Nicholas Wheeler, Humanitarian Intervention, Noble Eightfold Path
30 Oct 2014
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He claims that humanitarian motive is not a defining feature of a humanitarian intervention. Is this convincing: introduction to humanitarian intervention, topical question, central issue: Sovereignty: problem of enforcement, abstract and case study approach. Scholarship: what is intervention , limits of sovereignty, authorization, legitimacy and legality, state interests, threshold, conceptual problem, practical challenges, effectiveness, political will, politics of selective interventions, aftermath. Responsibility to protect (r2p): a new paradigm: background on r2p, conceptual/policy innovations, responsibility to protect , rethinking sovereignty, criteria for intervention, new norm, un world summit 2005. See my handout, case studies of humanitarian intervention, at. Nicholas wheeler"s four minimum criteria: just cause, last resort, proportional means, reasonable prospects. Case study i: iraq end of gulf war (1991) Background leading to humanitarian crisis: operation provide comfort , iraq violated sovereignty of quwait. Security council resolution 688: international security v. duty to intervene , initiative from france, turkey; ultimately us joins.
