Global security and military intervention

Security Dialogue

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 7-16

  Prins, Gwyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0042934491     PISSN: 09670106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0967010696027001003     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. R.K. Betts, ed., Cruise Missiles: Technology, Strategy, Politics (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1981). See especially pp. 206-207.
2. See J. Crawford, ed., The Rights of Peoples (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988).
3. 'In order to enable the United Nations to take urgent military measures, members shall hold immediately available national air-force contingents for combined international enforcement action.'
4. 'Authorizes Member States co-operating with the Government of Kuwait, unless Iraq on or before 15 January 1991 fully implements, as set forth in paragraph 1 above, the foregoing resolutions, to use all necessary means to uphold and implement resolution 660 (1990) and all subsequent relevant resolutions and to restore international peace and security in the area.'
5. It will be some time, if ever, before the documentary evidence for the Gulf War strategy is released. This comment is therefore based upon (a) the circumstantial evidence of the actual deployment and conduct of the operation on the ground: manifestly it was not winding down at the Kuwaiti border, and (b) conversations with a number of military and diplomatic leaders of the operation, which confirm that impression, and (c) televised testimony of major actors in BBC series 'The Gulf War', January 1996, especially 16 January 1996, 'The Ragged End', and radio interviews with Air Marshall Sir Patrick Hine on 17 January. See also L. F. Damrosch & D. J. Scheffer, eds, Law and Force in the New International Order (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1991).
6. For a comprehensive discussion of the international legal context of such action, see C. Gray, 'Regional Arrangements and the United Nations Collective Security System', in H. Fox, ed., The Changing Constitution of the United Nations (London: British Institute of International Law, 1996, forthcoming).
7. A thesis which discusses these questions is A. Mir, 'States, Force and Human Rights: a Legal Analysis of Humanitarian Intervention', M. Phil. (Cambridge: University of Cambridge, 1993).
8. The domestic resonance in the rescue of Capt. Scott O'Grady was clearly understood by the US forces. This was seen in the manner in which Admiral Leighton Smith engaged himself personally in the dealings with CNN at the moment when the success of the rescue was announced: the Admiral was on air even before the TRAP helicopters were on the deck of USS Kearsarge. See Mary Pat Kelly, 'Rescue: Out of Bosnia', US Naval Institute Proceedings, vol. 121/7/1,109, July 1995, p. 52.
9. Notably from interviews broadcast in the 1995 British TV series 'The Death of Yugoslavia'.
10. R. Robinson & J. Gallagher, with A. Denny, Africa and the Victorians: the Official Mind of Imperialism (London: Macmillan, 1961).
11. See C. Thomas, New States, Sovereignty and Intervention (Aldershot: Gower, 1985); D.R. Smock, ed., Making War and Waging Peace: Foreign Intervention in Africa (Washington DC: US Institute for Peace Press, 1993).
12. See C. Thomas, New States, Sovereignty and Intervention (Aldershot: Gower, 1985); D.R. Smock, ed., Making War and Waging Peace: Foreign Intervention in Africa (Washington DC: US Institute for Peace Press, 1993).
13. 'The trusteeship system shall not apply to territories which have become Members of the United Nations, relationships among which shall be based on respect for the principle of sovereign equality.'
14. J. Whitman & I. Bartholomew, 'Collective Control of UN Peace Support Operations: A Policy Proposal', Security Dialogue, vol. 25, no. 1, 1994, pp. 77-92.
15. E. B. Haas, 'Beware the Slippery Slope: Notes Towards the Definition of Justifiable Intervention', in L. W. Reed & C. Kaysen, eds, Emerging Norms of Justified Intervention (Cambridge, MA: American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 1993).
16. E. Gellner, 'Nationalisms and the New World Order', in L. W. Reed & C. Kaysen, eds, Emerging Norms of Justified Intervention, p. 154.
17. K. Graham, The Planetary Interest, GSP Occasional Paper (Cambridge: University of Cambridge, Global Security Programme) no. 7, May 1995, p. 7 develops a productive sequence of argument. He argues that 'legitimate national interest' is closely allied to the 'principle of good faith' underpinning subscription to the UN Charter. These, in turn, are tied to the emerging concept of 'international public interest', and thus we could link national to global.
18. See UK Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, Centre for Defence Analysis, 'Project Insight' Working Group III report How Will Attitude Shape Politics? (Farnborough: DERA, February 1996, forthcoming).
19. E. Hobsbawm, Age of Extremes: the Short Twentieth Century, 1914-1991 (London: Michael Joseph, 1994), p. 585.