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• W13621170 abstract "Humanitarian intervention is the current buzzword in politics. Intrastate violence, especially when linked to the presumed abuse of human rights, has come to be considered a legitimate concern of the international community. Although the latter concept is itself an elusive one, very few people stop to think what the term really means. fewer dare to ask whether a less than representative body, such as the UN Security Council, or a military alliance, such as NATO, should be permitted to arrogate to its elf the right to speak and act on behalf of the international community. The problem becomes more acute when these representatives of the international community choose targets for intervention selectively while ignoring human rights violations of equal or greater magnitude elsewhere. Much of this selectivity stems from the strategic interests of the dominant North Atlantic Concert. The decision in 1991 to create a safe haven for the Kurds in Iraq but not in Turkey, where the human rights of Kurds were being violated with equal severity, cast grave doubts on the sincerity of the intervening powers. Predicated on strategic considerations, double standards were at work and humanitarianism was the new code word for old-fashioned intervention undertaken for punitive purposes that had little to do with humanitarian concerns. Skepticism about the humanitarian enterprise also emanates from other factors. Violation of state sovereignty in an society, whose norms give pride of place to nonintervention, is perceived by many as threatening order in the long term. This is especially the case when such violation takes place by a cabal acting under the UN Charter's veto provision and through a patently discriminatory process. The legitimacy of such actions is further eroded when they are undertaken outside the framework of the charter, as in Kosovo in 1999, by a concert of powers that dominates both the economic and military structures and is in possession of revolution in military affairs (RMA) arsenals. [1] While there may have been genuinely humanitarian reasons for intervention in Kosovo, the auspices under which it was launched made it doubly suspect. Given the high degree of stratification in the system, such interventions, whether authorized by the Security Council or not, readily come to be viewed as instruments of depredation by the strong against the weak. They conjure up images of colonial domination under the guise of the nineteenth-century standard of civilization doctrine.[2] States unable to meet the new standard, defined in terms of human rights, become potential targets of intervention and tutelage if not conquest. When these standards are applied in total disregard of the social and political contexts in which human rights violations may have taken place, but at the same time selectively to suit the interests of the major powers, they leave the impression that, as in the nineteenth century, hidden agendas are at work. Moreover, as one scholar has pointed out, Even if human rights are thought to be inalienable, a moral attribute of persons that the state cannot contravene, rights still have to be identified-that is, constructed -- by human beings and codified in legal systems. [3] Therefore, the question of agency--who constructs and codifies human rights--becomes crucial. Currently, the power to determine both where human rights have been violated and what needs to be done about such violations is concentrated more or less in the hands of the same agents. Although ostensibly there is an human rights regime, the most important decisions are made either by the three Western permanent members of the Security Council or by members of NATO when the former cannot have their way in that body. When so much power is concentrated in the hands of agents who until a few decades ago were among the leading imperial powers, the legitimacy of such decisions becomes very dubious. …" @default.
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