Humanitarian Intervention

Alton Frye

Americans have spent much time in the last ten years arguing whether to intervene in places like Kosovo, Rwanda, and East Timor--and there will almost certainly be no policy consensus in future humanitarian crises of that nature, according to this report. Instead of phony consensus, this Council Policy Initiative lays out three separate arguments that would support distinct policy emphases on humanitarian intervention. The conflict in Kosovo in particular raised profound questions about when and where the United States and other international actors would use military force to curb massive abuses of human rights. It presented grave issues regarding the authority of the United Nations to make the essential decisions for or against such intervention on the territory of a member state.^ Accordingly, the Council examined whether it would be possible to frame a workable "doctrine" to...

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