The legality of international humanitarian intervention in international policy

Abstract EN

After the end of the Cold War, the international community established a new world policy, whose main priority was the provision of international peace and security and the protection of human rights.

This paved the way to the principle of international humanitarian intervention which aims at protecting minorities, restoring democracy, or providing humanitarian aid to the peoples in need.

Recent examples of this kind of international intervention can be found in Iraq in 1991, Somalia in 1992, and Libya in 2011.

This study aims at analyzing the concept of international humanitarian intervention and its legal bases, and to which extent the practical implementation of this concept matches them.

Also, it aims at explaining the most prominent developments that occurred in this field present mainly in the emergence of the concept of “international responsibility to protect.” The researcher will analyze and discuss both legal texts as well as the opinions of legal jurists.