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Суверенитет и хуманитарна интервенција
Sovereignty and Humanitarian Intervention

Author(s): Zoran Dragišić
Subject(s): Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Government/Political systems, International relations/trade
Published by: Институт за политичке студије
Keywords: humanitarian intervention; sovereignty; non-intervention; domestic authority of the state;

Summary/Abstract: In this article author analyzed the notion of humanitarian intervention and its relation to the notion of the state sovereignty. Intervention into domestic affairs of one state for humanitarian purposes represents one of the most complex legal and political issues in modern international relations. There is no doubt that a drastic breach of human rights, the genocide and racial, national and religious discrimination of large proportions make for a necessary intervention of international community, that implies the violation of sovereignty of the state where the drastic crimes in question have occurred. However, the hitherto practice has shown that very often the humanitarian purposes have been used as a pretext for the intervention of completely different objectives often directly contrasted to the humanitarian causes itself, therefore putting the whole concept of humanitarian intervention under suspicion. In the article there are also presented several characteristic examples by which the author tried to clarify the notion of humanitarian intervention.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 45-63
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Serbian