Examples Of Humanitarian Intervention

the costs associated with a Balkan intervention. Nevertheless, states act for reasons. They do not intervene in a far off land simply because to do so will not endanger their security. President Bush’s decision to intervene to alleviate starvation in Somalia is an example of a compliant response to the norm prescribing intervention.
The regulative function of a norm is that which regulates or constrains behavior by altering the consequences of a given behavior and thereby forcing a recalculation of how best to achieve given interests. Pressures from Congress and the media, combined with a desire to alleviate pressure over Bosnia and concern for his historical legacy were the regulative means by which President Bush may have been prompted to respond to the norm prescribing intervention in the absence of a material interest to do so. Conceptions of the self and other, and understandings of the appropriate and acceptable response to human suffering, create ‘logic of appropriateness’ which are constructed within the context of the society of states. In the social context of the world, President Bush’s learned values and interests led him to conclude that the United States should respond to the starvation that was occurring on the other side of the world because this was the appropriate response of a great power with the capacity
Influenced by the norm of humanitarian intervention, along with domestic normative developments, it was in their ideational interest to halt the Serb atrocities. An interest no doubt compounded with material concerns. Throughout the preceding years the international community had internalized and recognized the legitimacy of the norm of humanitarian intervention in the constitutional context of the UNSC. Norms of sovereignty and humanitarian intervention were reconciled in this