Ignoring these contexts threatens to over-simplify both the problems and the promises of humanitarian intervention.
Humanitarian intervention is most likely when the U.S. president enjoys a majority in Congress.
At least on paper, Britain's approach to humanitarian intervention is pretty ambitious to begin with.
Moreover, the doctrine of humanitarian intervention would not free any country to use force whenever it likes.
This does not mean, however, that humanitarian intervention will only occur when a president enjoys a majority in Congress.
The Council should also move a great deal faster, he said, and this would lead to more efficient humanitarian intervention.
For those who advocate for a strong humanitarian intervention in Syria, our research does not paint a completely gloomy picture.
One day humanitarian intervention may be accepted as legal, say the optimists.
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Some members of the Obama team were convinced of the need for humanitarian intervention and a demonstration of support for the Arab spring.
But he goes further, arguing that there are enough precedents to justify the claim that armed humanitarian intervention is now accepted by most states as legal.
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Mr Blair has offered the British people a higher moral cause, at first a duty of humanitarian intervention and more recently the need to confront terrorism around the world.
Our recent research on when and why the U.S. engages in humanitarian intervention emphasizes two factors that might force the U.S. government's hand on humanitarian intervention: public opinion and Congressional partisanship.
We analyzed public opinion polls and congressional votes during four episodes of humanitarian intervention -- Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo -- and found, as recent debates seems to suggest, humanitarian intervention is mired in the mundane world of politics.
America's generals, not noticeably keen on humanitarian wars of intervention in the first place, are going to be doubly resentful if human-rights-minded liberals get them into a humanitarian war and then expose American soldiers to prosecution for what they do in that war.
Further, Congress is not wholly unresponsive to public preferences regarding intervention in humanitarian emergencies.
Despite the moral, humanitarian and strategic arguments for intervention, Syria is a trap that threatens to suck external powers in and shackle them with responsibility for war-making, peacekeeping and a reconstruction effort that could eventually involve thousands of boots on the ground and billions of dollars in assistance.
Crucial allies like the UK and France were kept in the dark as some argued for intervention to prevent a humanitarian crisis, while others said that America could not afford, in any sense, another military adventure in the Arab world.
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Worsening shortages of food and medicine in both eastern and western Libya mean that a conflict prolonged and intensified by outside intervention could create a nationwide humanitarian disaster, whose effects will spill over into those countries that may have the best chance of a successful political transition to more representative government.
Would the U.S. support foreign military intervention for the purpose of getting humanitarian aid into Syria?
Presumably, any such decision would, like the U.S. intervention in Libya, be dressed up as a humanitarian operation.
As American pundits and politicians call for Syrian intervention, however merited or unjustified those appeals may be on humanitarian grounds, such pleas have yet to rally majority support for such action in America, Europe or the Middle East.
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