8A.7 - Geopolitical interventions

Subdecks (2)

Cards (15)

  • UN - 2005 World Summit Outcome Document

    • Each country has the responsibility to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity
    • If the responsibility fails, responsibility falls to international community
    • Responsibility to protect (R2P) - 150 countries
    • Geopolitical interventions generally take 4 forms:
    • Development aid
    • Military aid
    • Military action
    • Trade embargoes
  • Western governments and intervention

    • Western nations condemn human rights violations and use them as mechanisms for:
    • Justifying intervention
    • Offering aid
    • Negotiating trade agreements
    • Reasons for military action
    • Why is it flawed?
    • Challenges national sovereignty
    • National sovereignty conflicts with R2P
  • Murder vs Genocide
    • Murder - The malicious and unlawful killing of a human by another human
    • Genocide - The systematic extermination of an entire national, racial, religious or ethnic group
  • Bilateral vs Multilateral aid
    • Bilateral aid - receiving country must spend money on goods and services from the country providing it
    • Multilateral aid - HICs donate money through organisations such as World Bank and United Nations
  • Direct military action vs Indirect military action
    • Direct military action - direct force, such as troops or missiles
    • Indirect military action - military assistance, such as training
  • Myanmar
    • Received $4.171 billion from USA 2013-14
    • Humanitarian assistance
    • 2021 military coup - 5000 civilian deaths, 3.3 million displaced, FDi $4.8 billion to $600 million, civil war
  • Israel
    • $3.1 billion from USA in 2014
    • $158 billion since 1948