POLC90H3 Lecture Notes - Liberal Internationalism, Ethnic Cleansing, Solidarism
Document Summary
Humanitarian intervention and peace building in post-conflict situations. A forcible breach of sovereignty that interferes in a state"s internal affairs. No intervention = sovereignty: undhr = united nations declaration of human rights, 1948. Counter-restrictionists are generally liberals; they are with intervention; To ensure intervention in cases: solidarism: view supported by liberal internationalists, some jurists, activists, academics. Commitment to develop consensual moral principles to legitimate: restrictionists. They argue for right of forcible humanitarian intervention. Based on un charter human rights provisions and customary international law. Since 1945 canada has sent 80 000 humanitarian intervention soldiers. Legal right enables intervention but it does not determine it. A view maintained by realists, some jurists, and some governments. Humanitarian intervention violates state-citizen compact to ask soldiers to fight for humanitarian intervention. Applied selectively and based on cultural preferences of the powerful (rwanda vs. yugoslavia) Humanitarian intervention will always be based on the strategic and cultural preferences of the powerful.
