The only humanitarian interventions that seem to be widely accepted are those authorised by the Security Council under the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations.
The jus ad bellum principles show that the intervention in Libya was justified, and offers an example of how to respond to the idea of civilian protection.
MC Interventions do not promote women’s empowerment. Women in the developing world do not only experience a cash flow problem, but are caught in complex systems of subordination and inequality.
Self-defined as neutral and objective, Rational Choice Theory nonetheless gives misleading accounts of individuals’ rationality by denying the historical aspect of individuals within social structures.
Constructivism plays a vital role in EU governance, while rational choice is an ineffective research tool that can be absorbed by the broader diagnostic approach offered by constructivism.
Structural forces within a state and the extent to which powerful elites make the boundaries of ethnic difference salient will determine whether the state will experience conflict.
The focus of international law has traditionally been inter-state relations. But this classic conception fails to adequately deal with contemporary circumstances.
Habermas’ theory of communicative action is fundamentally subjective and therefore weak as a critical social theory, but provides the international community with hope for prospective change.
The sovereign nation-state has been the central subject of inquiry in academic IR since its inception, but the historical evolution of the concept of the state has been, until recently, neglected.
By engaging in closed-off discussion, Neorealists and Neoliberals perpetuate orthodoxy rather than making gains in IR scholarship. The limitations of this debate should be acknowledged.
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