Military Interventions To Secure Democracy And Human Rights: A Critical Study

Abstract

“We make war that we may live in peace.” – Aristotle The War and the laws of war are too old as it can be traced with the inception of human civilization. There are many definitions for military intervention since, it depends upon and gets influenced by the analysis of the person who can be from background of law, morals or politics. The rightly proposed condition is the proper authority’s declaration of action and war motivated by bona fide intentions. The states that seek democracy in the intervened state through interventions, dates back to external imposition’s idea of imposing democracy in the liberal theory of world politics. The research examines the conceptual study to find out the relevancy and establish a relationship of legislations as well as the case laws, under the matter of investigation. Further, this study examines the Doctrinal approach to get an idea behind the overall effect on people and the society of such legislations, especially the co-relation between laws and non-legal facts. Moreover, the study makes clear picture of several attempts of religious figures, Kings, philosophers etc., around the world, in order to limit the consequences in a warfare through making binding rules in a war. But, in turn, many of these principles/customs have been subject to various drawbacks as the issue of applicability was not resolved due to limitation to a particular region and a particular war with a sole responsibility lying in hands of the belligerents for effective implementation of these laws of war. The years 700-450 B.C. in Greece give records of the Just war doctrine’s origin because it had a proper network of a combination of rules for governing warfare between then city states. The phenomenon of Globalization had been associated for a long time, with global militarization and various expansions, expeditions and conquests of Alexander, The Great, Romans, British, French, Ottoman Empire and military occupations of Hitler. Moreover, Human Rights have evolved as an important aspect for leading a peaceful life with a development of a human being. Right after creation of United Nations, the availability and enjoyment of human rights got focused more in the present times. The international community has accepted human rights as an obligation of sovereign states by protecting their population from violations of these basic rights and thereby, refraining from perpetrating these rights’ infringement. The changing era has made a clear shift in the concept of state sovereignty. The case studies undertaken for this research are analysis of the justifiability of military interventions with respect to the reasons of initiating those. Mostly, the third world states are the ones in which interventions are initiated and the initiators are the countries of the First/Second world. The research has undertaken justifiability in certain conditions, for the use of force, but with subject to proper usage of evidence to intervene in other state.