From the point of view of international law intervention - a violent intervention of one sovereign state in the internal or external affairs of another - military, political or economic.
question is the subject of legal and empirical debate, beginning with the moment that has been developed by international law, and no standard legal definition it does not exist.However, it explained this way: under certain circumstances, external forces are obliged to intervene in the affairs of another state, to protect the people in it with extensive violations of their civil rights, even if it is a conflict between states.
Although, in principle, the intervention - is an illegal act, some intervention in such cases are regarded as legitimate.
example of this type of views the debate were conducted in 1996 on the proposal of Canada to intervene in Zaire (now Congo), in order to protect millions of Hutu refugees, survivors of the genocide in Rwanda.They were at risk of extermination on the part of the Tutsi who had supported the Rwandan government, and because of the Zairian Civil War.The Canadians argued that the rights of the civilian population, and this outweighs any other considerations.Those opposed, saying that the needs of a humanitarian nature do not in themselves justify interference.In addition, it has been argued that the long-term intervention in itself is fraught with uncertainty.
What should be done in such a crisis as genocide in Rwanda, when the international community is trying to stop the killing?
In the context of international law, the intervention of one state in the affairs of another in order to protect innocent people is considered as a humanitarian intervention, if there is a UN Security Council sanctions.But can the country, acting with the approval of the UN Security Council, to fulfill the alleged "duty"?Or, such a doctrine is essentially a "Trojan horse", abuse of stronger powers?It does not serve any practical justification for such intervention States decoupling conflicts in foreign countries?
When countries without domestic support for the bloodless political interventions send its armed forces on the territory of other states, to a large extent they pursue their narrow national interests: the conquest of territory, receive geo-strategic advantages, control of precious natural resources.The leaders are trying to win public support, describing their actions in terms of high moral goals - peace, justice, democracy in the conflict zone.It is worth remembering that historically many of the campaign launched by the European colonial powers in the 19th century, based on considerations of human values
In Rwanda, in 1991, as expected, the French intervention under the aegis of the UN will be to conduct "Operation Turquoise".But, using the humanitarian imperative as a cover, France continued to try to influence events in the Great Lakes region.
In 2003, the US-British invasion and occupation of Iraq have been identified also as a humanitarian intervention by British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Taking into account that the classical intervention is, in principle, political in nature and include impose their will by force, and humanitarian intervention - a direct challenge to the very concept of sovereignty.
public in North America and Western Europe, with all the talk about compassion for other people it is easy to agree on the use of military force to end, according to them, disaster in another country, not seriously thinking about what the price of a "Compassion"morally, politically and economically?
Today, humanitarian intervention - this is basically the brainchild of the United Nations, some organizations are unable to work in peace in the conflict zones.These groups are the most ardent of its preachers.The French diplomat Bernard Kouchner even popularized legal theory scientist Mario Bettati "the right to intervene."
The term may be used in other values.For example, as a set of economic measures of domestic policy: the purchase of intervention grain interventions.In both cases - that's the way the state is trying to regulate the prices of agricultural products (raw materials, food, grain).
