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Nationella intressen i humanitära interventioner - nyckeln till framgång eller katastrof?

Norberg, Saga LU (2020) STVA22 20201
Department of Political Science
Abstract
Humanitarian interventions are a controversial phenomenon. Many practitioners claim that for a humanitarian intervention to be successful they must not have ulterior self-interested motives - my study aims to test whether this is true. Using the most different systems design I
analyze the motives and success in the humanitarians interventions Operation Provide Comfort in Northern Iraq 1991 and INTERFET:s intervention in East Timor 1999. My results show that both USA and Australia had national interests in their interventions and that they were both successful in terms of short-term saving of lives. I apply the perspectives of realistic social contractarianism and neorealism and and compare it to classical humanitarianism. Both cases... (More)
Humanitarian interventions are a controversial phenomenon. Many practitioners claim that for a humanitarian intervention to be successful they must not have ulterior self-interested motives - my study aims to test whether this is true. Using the most different systems design I
analyze the motives and success in the humanitarians interventions Operation Provide Comfort in Northern Iraq 1991 and INTERFET:s intervention in East Timor 1999. My results show that both USA and Australia had national interests in their interventions and that they were both successful in terms of short-term saving of lives. I apply the perspectives of realistic social contractarianism and neorealism and and compare it to classical humanitarianism. Both cases analyzed in the study show that humanitarian interventions with motives that are not only humanitarian can, in fact, can be successful. My conclusion is that humanitarian interventions motivated by national interests are not doomed to fail. (Less)
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author
Norberg, Saga LU
supervisor
organization
course
STVA22 20201
year
type
L2 - 2nd term paper (old degree order)
subject
keywords
Humanitära interventioner, nationellt intresse, framgång, norra Irak, Östtimor, Humanitarianism
language
Swedish
id
9009308
date added to LUP
2020-09-21 13:29:34
date last changed
2020-09-21 13:29:34
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  abstract     = {{Humanitarian interventions are a controversial phenomenon. Many practitioners claim that for a humanitarian intervention to be successful they must not have ulterior self-interested motives - my study aims to test whether this is true. Using the most different systems design I
analyze the motives and success in the humanitarians interventions Operation Provide Comfort in Northern Iraq 1991 and INTERFET:s intervention in East Timor 1999. My results show that both USA and Australia had national interests in their interventions and that they were both successful in terms of short-term saving of lives. I apply the perspectives of realistic social contractarianism and neorealism and and compare it to classical humanitarianism. Both cases analyzed in the study show that humanitarian interventions with motives that are not only humanitarian can, in fact, can be successful. My conclusion is that humanitarian interventions motivated by national interests are not doomed to fail.}},
  author       = {{Norberg, Saga}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Nationella intressen i humanitära interventioner - nyckeln till framgång eller katastrof?}},
  year         = {{2020}},
}