PO102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Non-Interventionism, Extraordinary Measures, Just War Theory
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Not peacekeeping operations: when there"s war or conflict inside of a state and they"re tired of fighting so they invite the un in, under consent of the parties involved. 1945 first two international military tribunals (imt) Focus on mass atrocity crimes (mac) genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing, mass rape. Not allowed to do any mac under international criminal and humanitarian law government leaders and others can be held accountable for macs. Two sides face off against each other. Do whatever they want, intervene in their satellite states. Nuclear weapons, doctrine, intervention, national and military interest (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) United nations actually does something until then, the soviets and chinese would veto and if they didn"t the west did, so the. Security council was paralyzed for decades before this. Bush tries to get him out of kuwait. Hussein forced himself into kuwait so with relative unity in the.
