The Ozark Historical Review
Abstract
Since the end of World War II, the United States has engaged in a new type of warfare. No longer fighting conventional wars, the United States has begun to enter into an intervention style of warfare. Often, intervention occurs on humanitarian grounds, rather than for reasons of conquest, which can often lead to unwanted destruction and alienate local populations. At the same time America’s military tactics shifted the world saw the resurgence of universal human rights. Increasingly included within these rights was the right to protection, or R2P. Just war theory becomes joined with humanitarianism when the action of intervening is looked at from the perspective of right to protection.
Recommended Citation
King, Nathaniel R.
(2013)
"Humanitarian Intervention and Just War Theory,"
The Ozark Historical Review: Vol. 42, Article 8.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uark.edu/ohr/vol42/iss1/8
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