humanitarian intervention

Definitions

1. 1

   The deployment of army personnel for humanitarian-motivated goals.

   • The events of 1999 in Kosovo and East Timor provide an important opportunity to reflect on the practice of humanitarian intervention.
   • 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.
   • But in some respects humanitarian intervention looks more like police work than war.

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