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Title Operation Restore Hope - En FN humanitære intervention
Date 2012
Author(s) Jensen, Mia Nybo
Contributor(s) Rüdiger, Mogens
Abstract Humanitarian intervention is an ideological instrument in international relations. The legitimacy for humanitarian interventions is based on the belief in the human rights and the value of each individ-ual human's life. A humanitarian intervention can be started with or without the approval of the United Nations. There is nevertheless a paradox in a humanitarian intervention based on a UN man-date, namely that it collides with one of the core principles of the UN ' the sovereignty of states. This, however, raises the question of why a state should be willing to risk the life of its country's soldiers to 'merely' protect human rights, if there is nothing for the stat to gain by doing so. The humanitarian intervention in Somalia 1992, in which the U.S was the driving force, is offend pre-sented as an prototype of an humanitarian intervention, in which the U.S. had no interest in terms of domestic policies, but only wanted to help the starving people of Somalia. The aim of this thesis is to examine whether the U.S. administration had further interest in Somalia than the purely moral reasons in order to make them willing to risk the life's of American soldiers.<br/>To examine this, the thesis will discuss whether US had geostrategic interest in the country. The focus will be on oil and the U.S.'s political concerns in the MENA-countries. Furthermore, the the-sis will examine the new political landscape after the end of the Cold War and whether the U.S.'s new role cohere with the intervention in Somalia. The research will include different text materials as for instance official documents from both the president Reagan and the president Bush admin-istration. These provide an insight into the U.S.'s foreign- and security politics during the period. The thesis will also include the work of different scholars as e.g. Michael Klare and his research on the natural resources influence on modern conflicts, David Gibbs' research on American oil interest in Somalia in the beginning of the 1990's and Robert Kagan's discussion about the ending of the Cold War influence on the US's security policy. All topics are highly relevant for this research.<br/>The main findings of this research points in the direction that the U.S. did have some interests in terms of practical policy to initiate and carry the humanitarian intervention in Somalia, hence,chances are that it was not merely an ideological intervention.<br/>
Coverage 25 pages
Language dan
Relation Historie, Bachelor; History, Bachelor; 5. semester; 5. term; http://vbn.aau.dk/ws/files/71745155/samlet_projekt.pdf
Type of publication BACHELORPROJECT
Format application/pdf
Repository Aalborg - Aalborg University
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