Globalization essay writing services Part 1: Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect

The increased importance of human rights and their protection over the last 20-30 years has raised questions about how international society should react in the face of gross violations of human rights. Do other states and international organisations have a right and a duty to intervene when a state fails to protect the human rights of

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its citizens? If so, in what circumstances are humanitarian interventions legitimate? In this seminar, we consider the issue of humanitarian intervention, the related concept of a Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and the relationship of both to state sovereignty.

Seminar Questions:

a). Should we intervene militarily in the domestic affairs of other countries in order to remedy human rights abuses?

b). Is there a norm of humanitarian intervention or a responsibility to protect in international society?

c). Can we reconcile humanitarian intervention with the norms of sovereign equality and non-intervention?

d). Is R2P merely an instrument for further Western Imperialism?

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