"Western humanitarian intervention theory and practice"

Author: Wei Zonglei et al.
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Publishing Date: 2003-01-01
Features: Western "humanitarian intervention" has been one of the most controversial theoretical and practical issues in international relations since the 1990s. The "9/11" event pushed "anti-terrorism" to the center stage of international affairs, and "humanitarian intervention" seemed to be overshadowed by the "war on terror." However, in reality, "humanitarian intervention" has crossed "9/11" and continues to be the basic ideology behind military interventions by the United States and other Western countries. The "war on terror" has not only taken the frequency and scale of U.S. foreign interventions to unprecedented levels but has also further elaborated and extrapolated the underlying "humanitarian" justifications.