undeniably reflecting a just cause for international action to commit to their responsibility to protect principles in 1995. Next is the requirement for legitimate authority, given by the UN Security Council Resolution 816. Military intervention must also be the last resort. This was certainly the case with Bosnia, so much so that former US ambassador to Yugoslavia Warren Zimmerman suggests; “the refusal of the Bush administration to commit American power early on was our greatest mistake of the entire Yugoslavian crisis.” 307 Declaration of operational aims must also be declared prior to intervention, these were aforementioned within the UNSC Resolutions 758 and 819 that can be readily accessed online. 308 Proportionality of the military input to the outcome of intervention must also be considered. In the Bosnian example, the damage of an ethnic cleansing campaign under Serbian General Milosovic therefore outweighs the damage of two weeks of aerial campaigns on Serbian military positions, the details of which will be analysed in the following chapter. Finally, the probability of success must be significant enough to initiate the use of force. The UN’s authorisation was followed by a swift but heavy eleven-day campaign which resulted in the signing of the Dayton Accords. Again, the methods of which success was achieved will be analysed within the following chapter. With reference to the Just War doctrine, I believe the UN’s intervention in Bosnia from 1992-95 represents the appropriate use of force in correlation to the Responsibility to Protect principles. 4.2 The role of national interests in the decision to intervene The role of national interests provides the greater part of anti- interventionists argument on the motives of UN members precluding a humanitarian intervention. If o ne were to take a neorealist’ view on
307 Warren Zimmerman, Origins of a Catastrophe: Yugoslavia and its Destroyers, (New York: Times Books, 1996), pp. 22. 308 United Nations, ‘ Security Council Resolutions’, <http://www.un.org/en/sc/documents/resolutions/>
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