Global environmental issues - Humanitarian Intervention - Rise of humanitarian intervention

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What were the 'golden years' or rising years of humanitarian intervention, and why?

The 1990s, due to the end of the Cold War

What are the four factors contributing to growing willingness by governments to intervene on the basis of human rights infringements?

  • Humanitarian considerations often overlapped with concerns about national interest
  • In a world of 24/7 news governments feel more pressure to intervene
  • The newly created circumstances with the USA as world power facilitated consensus amongst major powers favouring intervention
  • Politicians and policy makers are more willing to accept the doctrine of human rights as a standard for ethical conduct

What defines liberal interventionism?

The theory that liberal values and institutions are universally applicable and should be promoted by intervention in the affairs of other states
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What are two main reasons providing difficulties for western intervention in Africa?

  • Because such action would have been perceived as a return to colonialism
  • Due to the opposition of Africa's main power, South Africa

What defines a Pariah state?

A state whose behavioural norms place it outside the international community

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