Since the end of the Cold War, the question of whether humanitarian crises justify military intervention has played a prominent role in foreign policy debates. While the collapse of the Soviet Union ...
Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Two heavy hitters from the left and right are struggling with the weekend’s (aerial) incursion into Libya. Both the Times’s ...
Humanitarian intervention is intervention forced upon a sovereign state. It is either arbitrarily undertaken by one state or collectively by a group of states (at times under the platform of an ...
Prior to World War II, few harbored any expectation that the United States—or any nation—would intervene in humanitarian crises in other countries. The United States was deeply isolationist on a ...
IntroductionIn a situation devoid of any world body as well as with all countries being equal in status globally, states form Inter-Governmental Organizations (IGOs) to carry out the task of ...