POL S101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Humanitarian Intervention, John Locke, Political Philosophy
12 Jul 2018
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Serious crimes massive failing in early 20th century to protect the people responsibility to protect - important norm. Rst promoted by sweden, norway, australia if sovereign country does not take care of its people, commits crimes against humanity, there is a right for other nations to intervene and a potential obligation. Nal resort - have to go through all other forms of intervention rst before military. Legitimate authority - united nations? what constitutes legitimate authority. Gadda - had a strict regime that committed crimes against humanity, mobilized great deals of force, waged a war against those who were uprising, created somewhat of a civil war. Responsibility to protect, libyan government was not protecting its citizens intervention resulted in deaths on the ground, but also lessened the regime now in the process of transition to creating a new government. Must withdrawal when what they intended to do is complete, but who is there to pick up the pieces and reconstruct.
