POL SCI 124C Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Humanitarian Intervention, Exit Strategy, Multilateralism
13 Mar 2018
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Lessons from somalia to libya, western & goldstein. Since the big picture of humanitarian intervention has been positive and international community has gotten better about using military force to stop or prevent atrocities. This has fostered an era of declining armed conflict, fewer wars and civiilan casualties. After cold war, more discussions about genocide, ethnic cleansing and intervention. From initial reluctance to intervene to more robust action. Botched campaigns of 1992-5 stil guide conversations about intervention today > charges are outdated. Interventions do not prolong war and led to greater suffering, but are successful in ending conflict or at least mitigate violence against civilians, because they divert resources for slaughtering civilians to defending themselves. Interventions create perverse incentives for rebel groups to provoke states to commit violence against civilians, but statistics show that this is not happening- both frequency and intensity of civilian attacks have declined.
