humanitarian intervention
English
Noun
humanitarian intervention (plural humanitarian interventions)
- deployment of army personnel for humanitarian motivated goals.
- 2004, Michael C. Davis (ed.); Tania Voon (chapter author), “Legitimacy and Lawfulness of Humanitarian Intervention”, in International intervention in the post-Cold War world, M. E. Sharpe, Inc., page 40:
- The events of 1999 in Kosovo and East Timor provide an important opportunity to reflect on the practice of humanitarian intervention.
- 2010, Keith L. Shimko, International Relations: Perspectives and Controversies, Wadsworth Cengage, page 252:
- We may be in the middle of a process in which some fundamental ideas or norms about international politics are being transformed, and the increasing willingness to consider humanitarian intervention may be part of this evolution.
- 2012, Ned Dobos, Insurrection and Intervention: The Two Faces of Sovereignty, Cambridge University Press, page 117:
- But in some respects humanitarian intervention looks more like police work than war.
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See also
- Appendix:American Dialect Society most outrageous words of the year
References
- Most Outrageous Word of the Year, American Dialect Society
Further reading
- Military intervention and the European Union, Chaillot Paper No. 45, March 2001, European Union Institute for Security Studies
- The Ethics of Armed Humanitarian Intervention U.S. Institute of Peace August 2002
- The Argument about Humanitarian Intervention By Michael Walzer