- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- New to this Edition
- Notes on Contributors
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Boxes
- How to use this Book
- Online Resources
- 1. Introduction: What is Security Studies?
- Part 1 Approaches to Security
- 2. Realism
- 3. Liberalism and Liberal Internationalism
- 4. Historical Materialism
- 5. Peace Studies
- 6. Social Constructivism
- 7. Critical Security Studies: A Schismatic History
- 8. Poststructural Insights: Making Subjects and Objects of Security
- 9. Postcolonialism
- 10. Human Security
- 11. Gender and Security
- 12. Securitization
- Part 2 Deepening and Broadening Security
- 13. Military Security
- 14. Regime Security
- 15. Societal Security
- 16. Environmental Security
- 17. Economic Security
- 18. Globalization, Development, and Security
- Part 3 Traditional and Non-Traditional Security
- 19. Coercive Diplomacy: Countering War-Threatening Crises and Armed Conflicts
- 20. Weapons of Mass Destruction
- 21. Terrorism
- 22. Humanitarian Intervention
- 23. Energy Security
- 24. The Weapons Trade
- 25. Health and Security
- 26. Transnational Crime
- 27. Cyber-Security
- 28. After the Return to Theory: The Past, Present, and Future of Security Studies
- Glossary
- References
- Index
(p. 334) 22. Humanitarian Intervention
- Chapter:
- (p. 334) 22. Humanitarian Intervention
- Author(s):
Alex J. Bellamy
and Stephen McLoughlin
- DOI:
- 10.1093/hepl/9780198804109.003.0022
This chapter examines the implications of humanitarian intervention for international security. It considers the debate between those who argue that the protection of civilians from genocide and mass atrocities is far more important than the principle of non-intervention in certain circumstances and those who oppose this proposition. This has become a particular problem in the post-Cold War world where the commission of atrocities in places like Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur prompted calls for international society to step in to protect the victims with military force if necessary. Humanitarian intervention causes problems for international security by potentially weakening the rules governing the use of force in world politics. The chapter first considers the case against humanitarian intervention before discussing the principle known as ‘Responsibility to Protect’ (R2P).
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- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- New to this Edition
- Notes on Contributors
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Boxes
- How to use this Book
- Online Resources
- 1. Introduction: What is Security Studies?
- Part 1 Approaches to Security
- 2. Realism
- 3. Liberalism and Liberal Internationalism
- 4. Historical Materialism
- 5. Peace Studies
- 6. Social Constructivism
- 7. Critical Security Studies: A Schismatic History
- 8. Poststructural Insights: Making Subjects and Objects of Security
- 9. Postcolonialism
- 10. Human Security
- 11. Gender and Security
- 12. Securitization
- Part 2 Deepening and Broadening Security
- 13. Military Security
- 14. Regime Security
- 15. Societal Security
- 16. Environmental Security
- 17. Economic Security
- 18. Globalization, Development, and Security
- Part 3 Traditional and Non-Traditional Security
- 19. Coercive Diplomacy: Countering War-Threatening Crises and Armed Conflicts
- 20. Weapons of Mass Destruction
- 21. Terrorism
- 22. Humanitarian Intervention
- 23. Energy Security
- 24. The Weapons Trade
- 25. Health and Security
- 26. Transnational Crime
- 27. Cyber-Security
- 28. After the Return to Theory: The Past, Present, and Future of Security Studies
- Glossary
- References
- Index
