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8A.7 - Geopolitical interventions
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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
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