GS232 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Humanitarian Intervention, Non-Interventionism, Hutu
Document Summary
Force in the name of peace: part 1. Sovereignty: the quality of having supreme, independent authority over a territory. Non-intervention: outsiders are not allowed to interfere with matters that are domestic jurisdiction of state. (cid:862)nothi(cid:374)g co(cid:374)tai(cid:374)ed i(cid:374) the prese(cid:374)t charter shall authorize the u(cid:374)ited natio(cid:374)s to intervene in matters which are essentially within domestic jurisdiction of any state or shall require the members to submit such matters to settlement under the present. Self-interested reasons drove action; caution about violating non-interference norm. Public opinion is fickle especially when body bags are filling. Little interest of state interests behind these interventions. Intervention comes too late to stop most of the killing. Self-interested french intervention to protect interests and hutu clients. All interventions largely legitimized by international community. (cid:1005)99(cid:1004)"s i(cid:374)ter(cid:448)e(cid:374)tio(cid:374)s sho(cid:449)s the (cid:373)o(cid:448)e to(cid:449)ard a new norm of humanitarian intervention in cases of genocide and mass killings. Unsc paralysis over kosvo mobilized efforts to overcome the non-intervention norm.
