humanitarian intervention

Examples of humanitarian intervention in the following topics:

• International Humanitarian Policies and Foreign Aid

  • Humanitarian policies are ostensibly intended to help other countries, and include human rights policies, aid, and interventions.
  • International humanitarian interventions are military or non-military interventions into another country to halt widespread violence or war.
  • In this humanitarian intervention, NATO forces intervened in Kosovo.
  • Humanitarian interventions are frequently controversial, and the motives of the intervening force are often called into question.
  • Analyze the emergence and justification for humanitarian intervention in world politics

• Humanitarian Efforts

  • Humanitarian aid is material or logistical assistance in response to crises including natural and man-made disasters.
  • Humanitarian aid is material or logistical assistance in response to crises including natural and man-made disasters.
  • The primary objective of humanitarian aid is to save lives, alleviate suffering and maintain human dignity.
  • The funding and delivery of humanitarian aid has become increasingly international in scope.
  • With humanitarian aid efforts sometimes criticized for a lack of transparency, the humanitarian community has initiated a number of inter-agency initiatives to improve its accountability, quality and performance.

• The United Nations

  • The United Nations was established to replace the flawed League of Nations, in order to maintain international peace and promote cooperation in solving international economic, social and humanitarian problems.
  • It is through these agencies that the UN performs most of its humanitarian work.
  • The UN is a world leader in human rights protection and humanitarian assistance.
  • The UN and its agencies are central in upholding and implementing the principles enshrined in the Declaration, from assisting countries transitioning to democracy, to supporting women's rights, to providing humanitarian aid.

• Economic Aid and Sanctions

  • Aid may have other functions besides humanitarian: it may be given to signal diplomatic approval, strengthen a military ally, reward a government for behavior desired by the donor, extend the donor's cultural influence, provide infrastructure needed by the donor for resource extraction from the recipient country, or gain other kinds of commercial access.
  • Humanitarianism and altruism are, nevertheless, significant motivations for the giving of aid.
  • Economic sanctions also can be a coercive foreign policy measure used to achieve particular policy goals related to trade, governance, or humanitarian violations.

• Isolationism

  • After Tsar Alexander II put down the 1863 January Uprising in Poland, French Emperor Napoleon III asked the United States to "join in a protest to the Tsar. " Secretary of State William H Seward declined, "defending 'our policy of non-intervention — straight, absolute, and peculiar as it may seem to other nations,'" and insisted that "the American people must be content to recommend the cause of human progress by the wisdom with which they should exercise the powers of self-government, forbearing at all times, and in every way, from foreign alliances, intervention, and interference. "
  • The United States' policy of non-intervention was maintained throughout most of the nineteenth century.
  • The first significant foreign intervention by the United States was the Spanish-American War, which saw the United States occupy and control the Philipines.

• The Changing Federal Role in the Economy

  • In the United States, the Federal Reserve System (also known as the Federal Reserve, and informally as the Fed) serves as the central mechanism for understanding federal intervention (and de-entanglement) with the economy.
  • The Federal Reserve System acts as the central mechanism for federal intervention in the U.S. economy.

• The Goals of Economic Policy

  • It covers the systems for setting interest rates and government budget as well as the labor market, national ownership, and many other areas of government interventions into the economy.
  • This can occur (for example) as a result of intervention by the International Monetary Fund.

• The Diversity Debate

  • Debates over affirmative action center around the question of whether diversity in the classroom merits a program of state intervention.

• Executive Privilege

  • Executive privilege is the power claimed by the President to resist subpoenas and other interventions by other branches of government.
  • In the United States government, executive privilege is the power claimed by the President of the United States and other members of the executive branch to resist certain subpoenas and other interventions by the legislative and judicial branches of government.

• Span of Government

  • The most common applications of the term are for economic interventionism (a state's intervention in its own economy), and foreign interventionism (a state's intervention in the affairs of another nation as part of its foreign policy).
  • Political support or political capital, such as nationalism or ethnic conflict also decide foreign intervention actions such as occupation, nation-building and national security policies.