Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect: Who Should Intervene?
Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect: Who Should Intervene?
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人道主义干预和保护责任:谁应该干预?
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2011
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M. Newman
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M. Newman
Humanitarian intervention is generally understood to be the trans-boundary use of military force in order to halt or avert large-scale and grave human suffering, and is a subject that has attracted much scholarly attention in recent decades. While the subject has been part of the Just War discourse for centuries, and many important works on humanitarian intervention were published during the later Cold War years (e.g. Lillich, ed. 1973; Bull, ed. 1984; Tesón, 1988), it was the various interventions of the 1990s—beginning with the enforcement of no-fly zones in Iraq following the first Gulf War and ending with the 1999 Kosovo intervention—that provoked the most sustained discussion of this topic. What has made the discussion about humanitarian intervention both fascinating and frustrating is not only the sheer volume of scholarship on this topic, but also the fact that this literature approaches the subject from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including international law, ethics, international relations, political science, and philosophy. Furthermore, a number of international developments during the 2000s have provided even more fodder for the discussion about humanitarian intervention—most notably the publication in 2001 of the Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ISICC), The Responsibility to Protect (or R2P), which was subsequently adopted (in revised form) at the 2005 United Nations World Summit, reaffirmed by the UN Security Council, and endorsed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in his 2009 Report. Despite suggestions that the practice of