Promoting the Concept of Humanitarian Intervention in the Context of International Relations Theory (with Emphasis on English School)

Subject Areas : International Relations

Seyyed Abdolali Qvam ¹ ( Professor of International Relations in Shahid Beheshti University )
Rahman Najafi Sayyar ² ( Ph. D Student in Research and Science University )

Received: 2015-05-12 Accepted : 2015-05-12 Published : 2014-02-20

Keywords: realism, Humanitarian intervention, Liberalism, Constructivism, English School, the Responsibility to Protect,

Abstract :

The concept of "humanitarian intervention" indicates superiority of the progressive principle of "justice" on the countries classical sovereignty. According to this concept, in the event of grave human rights crimes by tyrannical states, their sovereignty is undermined, and under the circumstances, interference in their internal affairs applied. Accordingly, the occurrence of widespread human rights crimes during the Cold War in Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, Somalia and etc., humanitarian interventions put in its agenda to prevention of genocide, torture and rape of human rights and. In this regard, various theorists of international relations theoretical were effort to understand the emergence of these interventions. Theorists using different theories such as realism, constructivism, liberalism, and have tried to explain the concept of this phenomenon. In this regard, the present paper Tries to analyzes the humanitarian intervention and it promotion to "responsibility to protect" in the context of pluralism and solidarism English School and trends of solidarism and pluralism English School