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This 12 page paper provides a discussion of the Doctrine of Humanitarian Intervention, its principles and whether or not nations should be allowed to breach international law. Many examples are given. Issues such as human rights violations by China, the Kosovo crisis and the role of the U.N. in general are each discussed in the context of the doctrine. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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the United Nations (Tharoor & Daws, 2001). However the phrase "humanitarian intervention" has not been embraced in more recent times (2001). Since Annan spoke those words, a debate has
ensued, one side committed to the rule of law in world affairs based on states rights, and the other on the rule of law based on the rights of
individuals (2001). It is a difficult dilemma. When should a country have a right to intervene in anothers business on humanitarian grounds? For example, while Americans see the United States
as perhaps the fairest country in the world, its allowance of the death penalty is seen as inhumane by some nations. The problem is that there is no consensus on
what is inhumane, what inalienable rights are exactly and whether or not a state should intervene in matters that another nation allows. Throughout the years, the United States has
taken a stand that is somewhat detached, but all the same concerned about human rights around the world. While Wilsons and Clintons ideas, for example, favored an actively engaged U.S.
foreign policy for democracy and humanity, the Clinton "doctrine" of humanitarian intervention has been the document that has been most subject to breach (Carey, 2001). The frequent interventions by the
United States in Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo and even East Timor, Sierra Leone, and Liberia to some extent have been guided by U.S. domestic politics, even though they
are considered peacekeeping missions (2001). The 1991, the Gulf War for example had been seen as a watershed in international relations as it was the first time that superpowers
cooperated in a major military action (2001). Bushs embrace of collective security in Iraq had been built upon a doctrine of cooperation with Gorbachev with the consent of
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