POLS 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Noble Eightfold Path, Humanitarian Intervention, Territorial Integrity
4 May 2017
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The principle of non-intervention in international relations forbids the use of force in other sovereign countries. Collective action authorized by the un security council. Counter-restrictionists argue for the legal right of humanitarian intervention: legal claim: territorial integrity is not breached by intervention. Just needs to protect people: moral claim: if a state fails to protect its citizens, it should lose its sovereign rights. Humanitarian intervention history: the cold war- state security prioritized rendering humanitarian military intervention an illegitimate, the golden age of humanitarianism- rise in international human rights and with it humanitarian intervention with varying outcomes. The three pillars of the responsibility to protect: the state carries primary responsibility for the protection of population. !1: the international community has a responsibility to assist states in ful lling this responsibility. Monday, october 19, 2015: the international community should use appropriate diplomatic, humanitarian and other peaceful means to protect populations from these crimes.
