POLI 359 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Humanitarian Intervention

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 359
• Professor: Fernando Nunez- Mietz

Document Summary

R2p -> results in obligation: obligation of governments to protect their populations from four mass atrocity crimes. Allies argued that nature and structure off the qaddafi regime closed off diplomatic possibilities: question of proportionality and motivation. Au criticisms of regime change, did not sit with people whose lives were at risk should the regime not change: relationship with west/p5. Un framed the crisis in terms of r1973 and r2p. R2p uses the notion of sovereignty as responsibility and seeks to respond to extreme crises in a way that is both legitimate and legal: human rights violations. Using civilians as a human shield, allegations of murder, rape, and sexual torture: people on each side. Prevention: political factors as hindering or helping an intervention. Not purely political but heavily aided by the politics. Military action in libya was preceded by range of non-military measures. Compare to syria: sc"s inability to take action in the face of atrocities in syria, widened controversial.