INTERNATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR MILITARY INTERVENTION

AUTHOR – ANAS JAMIL EID ALLOUZI, FACULTY OF LAW, INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC SCIENCES UNIVERSITY

BEST CITATION – ANAS JAMIL EID ALLOUZI, INTERNATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR MILITARY INTERVENTION, INDIAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL REVIEW (IJLR), 4 (2) OF 2024, PG. 898-915, APIS – 3920 – 0001 & ISSN – 2583-2344.

Introduction

It is generally felt that military intervention raises an array of responsibilities for intervening organizations and states and for the wider international community. The purpose of this essay is not to explore these responsibilities in detail, but to concentrate on international responsibility for military intervention. In particular, we ask three related questions. First, what is the legal framework which determines international responsibilities where states and other agents undertake military intervention? Second, what are the main ethical justifications for international intervention or non-intervention? Finally, in those few cases where intervention may be morally and/or legally justified, what are the relevant criteria for responsible intervention?

During the later 1990s, a number of organizations and networks, some of which are grouped under the ‘international ethics and military intervention umbrella’, have addressed these and related questions. For example, the development, content, and significance of the NATO just war against Serbia have been investigated. There has been an examination of the United Nations Security Council’s intervention in Chad and southern Libya with a multinational expeditionary force, an investigation into the pertinent questions of legality and legitimacy with respect to humanitarian intervention, and a project on responsibility and accountability in common security. While this emerging literature is of the highest quality, it exhibits the beginning of a process rather than the end. Thus, the forthcoming volume on the United Nations, regional security organizations, and their members provides an incisive overview of the ways in which governments, supranational bodies, and armed forces have responded to military interventions in a variety of case studies. But we need an equally detailed picture of the corresponding international reaction. Similarly, the debate over the criteria for international responsibility across the UN-Chapter VIII divide is complex and uneven. What is needed, then, is an overall assessment of the legal context, the ethical justifications for international intervention and non-intervention, and the criteria for responsible international responsibility for intervention per se. At each of these levels, many of the more detailed questions identified in the subsequent essays below point to important new directions.

Keywords: Military Intervention, International, Responsibility International law.