Humanitarian intervention case studies
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- Humanitarian intervention case studies
- Kosovo (1999)
- Fighting erupted again in the Balkans
- Albanians wanted independence from Serbia
- Tony Blair pushed for NATO military intervention
- Air strikes against Serbia
- Threat of a full land invasion meant the president handed Kosovo over to NATO
- Would still legally remain Serbian territory
- NATO forces stayed and took over rebuilding
- Resolution lead to the inventon of the 'Blair Doctrine'
- 'Acts of genocide can never be a purely internal matter'
- Genocide requires intervention
- Fighting erupted again in the Balkans
- Somalia (1992-1993)
- George H. W. Bush committed 28,000 troops to Somalia at the end of his presidency
- Stated it was "to end the starvation"
- Easier to imagine in the 1990s when the USA had just become the sole global superpower
- They felt they had to "answer the call"
- Stated it was "to end the starvation"
- Battle of Mogadishu
- US troops brutally captured and killed
- Picture and videos of the scene all over the news
- Withdrawal of troops
- Because of Mogadishu
- Bill Clinton withdrew all troops by March 1994
- Remains an anarchic failed state to his day
- UN abandoned operations a year later
- Remains an anarchic failed state to his day
- George H. W. Bush committed 28,000 troops to Somalia at the end of his presidency
- Bosnia (1995)
- NATO intervention
- Suffering had finally persuaded them to take action
- Bosnian Serb attacks on Sarajevo
- The Srebenica Massacre
- End of the Cold War meant it was trying to protect the 'near abroad'
- In December 1995 all sides agreed to the Dayton Peace Accords
- Suffering had finally persuaded them to take action
- Nation-building
- Couldn't just end the fighting and leave
- Power vacuums are dangerous
- Former Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown became High Represen-tative
- Criticised for potential neo-colonialism
- Position designed to fill power vacuumuntil a working democracy could be put in place
- Couldn't just end the fighting and leave
- NATO intervention
- First Gulf War (1991)
- Seemed to signal the start of a new age of global cooperation in international humantarian resolutions
- Maybe countries were willing to intervene beyond their own interests
- Living up to UN ideals
- States working together to expel Iraqi forces from Kuwait
- George H. W. Bush termed Hussein's actions as "naked aggression"
- Seemed to signal the start of a new age of global cooperation in international humantarian resolutions
- Afghanistan (2001-2015)
- Fight against al-Qaeda after 9/11
- Humanitarian element too because of the Taliban's brutal rule
- Forces didn't consider how hard it would be
- Very remote country
- Culture was so different
- Long-term security is a lot harder than temporary presence in a single town or village
- Fight against al-Qaeda after 9/11
- Libya (2011)
- Civil war against President Gaddafi broke out in 2011
- NATO took on responsibility for UN resolutions 1970 and 1973
- Focused on destroying Gaddafi's air force and artillery
- Destroyed the little infrstructure present for cilivians
- Gaddafi was captured and killed
- Left a huge power vacuum which led to widespread gang warfare
- ISIS spread its influence to the region
- Many Libyans are resentful of the intervention
- Would rather be under Gaddafi
- Left a huge power vacuum which led to widespread gang warfare
- Focused on destroying Gaddafi's air force and artillery
- Iraq (2003-2011)
- Similar initial reasoning to Afghanistan
- Saddam Hussein was quickly overthrown
- Little thought was paid to reconstruction
- The army, government and civil service wwere disbanded
- Sunni Muslims' interests had been most closely tied to Hussein
- Launched an insurgency
- Western forces couldn't prevent the killings
- Failure of nation-building directly led to ISIS
- Sunni Muslims' interests had been most closely tied to Hussein
- The army, government and civil service wwere disbanded
- Bush administration felt Iraq could move to democracy with little interference
- Donald Rumsfield wanted the USA to leave a 'light footprint'
- Little thought was paid to reconstruction
- Kosovo (1999)
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