Rise of humanitarian intervention in the 1990s
- Created by: Kirsty Pym
- Created on: 17-04-14 14:39
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- Why did humanitarian intervention increase during the 1990s
- End of the Cold War and the fall of the Soviet Union
- Led to greater agreement on the UN Security Council over issues of humanitarian intervention
- Wider acceptance of universalist doctrines such as human rights
- Democratic support for welfare can increasingly be mobilised only on the basis of a moral cause
- Increase in civil wars and state collapse
- Stemmed from developments such as an increase in ethnic consciousness and the collapse of communism
- An awareness of human rights issues as a consequence of globalisation
- In a global age, states could no longer restrict their moral responsibilities to their own people (Wheeler)
- 24/7 news, current affairs, global television coverage = public pressure
- Impact of non-interventions - e.g. failure to prevent Rwandan Genocide and the Srebrenica Massacre
- 'CNN effect' - global information makes it difficult for governments to restrict their sense of moral responsibility to their own people
- 'New world order'
- End of the Cold War and the fall of the Soviet Union
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