humanitarian intervention

Examples of humanitarian intervention in the following topics:

• International Humanitarian Policies and Foreign Aid

  • Humanitarian policies are ostensibly intended to help other countries, and include human rights policies, aid, and interventions.
  • International humanitarian interventions are military or non-military interventions into another country to halt widespread violence or war.
  • In this humanitarian intervention, NATO forces intervened in Kosovo.
  • Humanitarian interventions are frequently controversial, and the motives of the intervening force are often called into question.
  • Analyze the emergence and justification for humanitarian intervention in world politics

• Humanitarian Efforts

  • Humanitarian aid is material or logistical assistance in response to crises including natural and man-made disasters.
  • Humanitarian aid is material or logistical assistance in response to crises including natural and man-made disasters.
  • The primary objective of humanitarian aid is to save lives, alleviate suffering and maintain human dignity.
  • The funding and delivery of humanitarian aid has become increasingly international in scope.
  • With humanitarian aid efforts sometimes criticized for a lack of transparency, the humanitarian community has initiated a number of inter-agency initiatives to improve its accountability, quality and performance.

• Hoover and the Limits of Individualism

  • Hoover saw volunteerism as preferable to governmental coercion or intervention, both of which he felt opposed the American ideals of individualism and self-reliance.
  • Providing large-scale humanitarian efforts, Hoover feared, would injure "the initiative and enterprise of the American people. " Unfortunately, this approach had little effect, and the economy continued to suffer for years.
  • Analyze the relationship between Hoover's "rugged individualism" and his understanding of government intervention in the national economy

• The Promotion of Global Human Rights

  • While the recent intervention in Libya may show how far the United States has come, the situation in Syria may shows how much more work needs to be done.
  • Derian as Coordinator for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, and in August 1977, had the post elevated to that of Assistant Secretary of State.

• UN Intervention

• Foreign Intervention in Korea

• Farm Policy of the 20th Century

  • Widespread government intervention in the farm economy began in 1929, when President Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) created the federal Farm Board.
  • Humanitarians saw the program as a way for America to share its abundance.

• The Debate over American Imperialism

  • The anti-imperialists opposed the expansion because they believed imperialism violated the credo of republicanism, especially the need for "consent of the governed. " They did not oppose expansion on commercial, constitutional, religious, or humanitarian grounds; rather they believed that annexation and administration of 3rd world tropical areas would mean the abandonment of American ideals of self-government and isolation—ideals expressed in the United States Declaration of Independence, George Washington's Farewell Address and Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
  • Despite its anti-war record, the League did not object to U.S. entry into World War I (though several individual members did oppose intervention).

• Confederate Diplomacy

  • Despite the Confederacy's efforts at diplomacy, the European states in large part refused to recognize or aid the Confederacy, for a combination of economic and humanitarian reasons.
  • After the war with the United States began, the Confederacy pinned its hopes for survival on military intervention by Britain and France.

• Foreign Policies

  • Derian as Coordinator for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, and in August of 1977, he had the post elevated to that of Assistant Secretary of State.