Humanitarian Intervention

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An armed intervention in a state, without that state’s consent, to address (the threat of) a humanitarian disaster, in particular caused by grave and large-scale violations of fundamental human rights

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Menon seamlessly transitions to the complicated journey of the United Nation's (UN's) R2P debate and the 2005 World Summit to gain a global consensus on humanitarian intervention.

The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention

What does this mean for the status of the doctrine of humanitarian intervention in international law?

Humanitarian intervention at the margins: an examination of recent incidents

The argument for humanitarian intervention is based on the idea that there is a broad international consensus condemning mass atrocities and sanctioning military action to stop them.

Don't just do something! "Humanitarian" interventions often lead to increased harm

Humanitarian intervention is often thought of as a relatively new practice, but its roots are ancient.

Humanitarian intervention in a multipolar world

The problem with humanitarian intervention, says international legal scholar Fernando Teson, is that it presents us with an 'exquisite tension': respect for human rights or respect for state sovereignty (1988; see also, 2006).

Genealogies of liberal violence: human rights, state violence, and the police

In other words, can a refugee crisis ever justify a military humanitarian intervention staged outside of the parameters of United Nations-sanctioned measures and operations?

The applicability of the humanitarian intervention "exception" to the Middle Eastern refugee crisis: why the international community should intervene against ISIS

Several definitions of humanitarian intervention have been provided

Exceptional measures call for exceptional times: the permissibility under international law of humanitarian intervention to protect a people's right to self-determination

On the subject of military humanitarian intervention, the 2011 NATO intervention in Libya did not bring peace and freedom to Libyans but rather violence and war that continues to this day.

Lebanon holds off Syria spillover, for now

There is nothing to change for the position of humanitarian intervention from an international law point of view.

Humanitarian intervention in international law and Libya case: lessons for Syria today and tomorrow/Uluslararasi hukukta insancil mudahale ve Libya ornegi: Suriye'de yasanan ya da yasanacaklar icin dersler

The American writer Paul Berman, who I recently interviewed in Brooklyn, where he lives, wrote a fascinating book chronicling the political journey of some of the most vocal supporters of humanitarian intervention.

The flight of the interventionists

He covers the humanitarian intervention discourse as a debate on the edges of the law, the third source of international law, equity as general principles in the legal systems of civilized nations, equity in international legal practice, and a framework for equitable humanitarian intervention.

An Equitable Framework for Humanitarian Intervention

Though many believe humanitarian intervention (3) to be a product

The development of the responsibility to protect: an examination of the debate over the legality of humanitarian intervention