POLS 3240 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Humanitarian Intervention, Global Governance, Just War Theory

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15 Dec 2014
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Intervention is more of interfering with political/military actions vs soley aiding. National interest for the aider/ public relations or publicity / economic interest -rescue -insurgency and belligerency ( humanitarian intervention) la hart: the certainty of law must be understood by referencing the uncertainty of law. Exceptional reasons to allowing humanitarian intervention - threat to peace ( global peace) -foces must have un security council permission. Article 52 is self defence richard falk society vs humanity -society has culture and memory - humanity has no culture, and no memory. Need to adjust westphalian/ post westphalian evolution to give more legal support for humanitarian aid - arguemnts: -destroy charter - adjust the charter t accommodate difficult disccions that have been played around by states. Just war doctrine. humanitarian intervention is a noble cause/ process, but is deeply troubled by politics of great powers.

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