Humanitarian intervention: The situation after the 1999 Kosovo and the 2003 Iraqi cases İnsancιl müdahale: 1999 Kosova ve 2003 Irak sonrasι durum

KESKİN ATA F.

Uluslararasi Iliskiler, cilt.3, sa.12, ss.49-70, 2006 (SCI-Expanded) identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 3 Sayı: 12
  • Basım Tarihi: 2006
  • Dergi Adı: Uluslararasi Iliskiler
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.49-70
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Humanitarian intervention, Iraq, Kosovo, Responsibility to protect, War against terrorism
  • Ankara Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Humanitarian intervention entered into the agenda of the international community once again after the Kosovo intervention of 1999. It is not one of the exceptions to the prohibition of the use of force brought by the United Nations Charter. Despite all efforts to describe it as one of the justifiable causes of using force against another state in the 1970s and 1990s, both states' attitudes and writers' elaborations show clearly that it is not accepted as a legal exception even by intervening states in Kosovo. After the invasion of Iraq in 2003, debates of humanitarian intervention were first dropped from the agenda, but later became a hot topic once again as one of the reasons for the invasion. Nevertheless, there is a small minority who consider the invasion as an example of humanitarian intervention and their argument is not persuasive because of the still insecure conditions in Iraq.