Armed Intervention Criteria

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Armed Intervention Criteria 1 Armed Intervention Criteria Patricia Jones LIB 320 Matt Fok April 6, 2010 Armed Intervention Criteria 2 Even though it costs billions of dollars, human life is lost and the country intervening suffers economically, armed intervention should occur only instances when a country's well-being is at risk, because sovereignty, national interest and human rights should be the main factors involved in bringing in the military. In addition, maintaining peace and security as well as defending one's self should also be considered. The United Nation’s criteria include unilaterally, multilaterally and multilaterally by regional collective defense action. The first criterion is unilaterally for self-defense of one state from another. An example would be if one state is attacked by another, that state can retaliate with an attack. The second criterion is multilaterally when authorized by the UN Security Council. This criterion is used to “maintain or restore international peace and security”. An example of this second criterion is the peacekeeping mission of NATO in Bosnia. The third and final criterion is multilaterally by collective defense action. This means more than two states working defensively together for a common objective in one region (Viotti & Kauppi). As abovementioned, factors are often involved in addition to the three criteria which include sovereignty, national interest, human rights, expected net effect on the human condition, and degree of multilaterism. As the president of the United States of America, I would maintain the current criteria despite the internal conflicts that incur. It is generally appreciated that, in the United States, women are less inclined to support armed intervention than are men, and feminist theory provides some foundations for exploring this gap. It is less
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