INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTIONS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA AND KOSOVO: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS
INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTIONS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA AND KOSOVO: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS

Author(s): Maja Stojanović
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Military policy, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Geopolitics, Wars in Jugoslavia
Published by: Građanske inicijative
Summary/Abstract: This paper makes a comparative analysis of the actions of the UN Security Council regarding international interventions in the cases of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo. These events made a decisive contribution to fueling the debate in the 1990s about humanitarian interventions and their legality and legitimacy in cases of threats to the peace, breaches of the peace and aggression. At the time of the interventions in BiH and Kosovo, the principle of R2P (Responsibility to Protect), which was adopted at a session of the United Nations General Assembly in 2005 and which directly mandates intervention in cases of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, was not in force. However, the essence of the R2P principle was even then the direction in which the logic of international humanitarian interventions moved. On the other hand, the adoption of the R2P principle can also be seen as a consequence of the problems that arose during the interventions in BiH and Kosovo, which indicated the necessity of expanding the powers of the UN Security Council (SC) beyond Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter. The problem of humanitarian intervention is dealt with primarily through the use of United Nations documents, a specific type of historical source.

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