within my work to provide evidence of the necessity for military interventions. For example, despite a very public restrictionist stance, Noam Chomsky’s position ho lds little credibility in the contemporary setting where the approach to security threats has been significantly re-evaluated. This also supports those operations deployed throughout the 1990’s in accordance with the UN’s Responsibility to Protect approach, not as some argue, for imperialistic motivations. Overall, my work will benefit those in search of a coherent analysis of the 1990’s as an era in which the UN’s Responsibility to Protect obligations were first applied within a new, challenging context. This has also been applied in correlation with the use of military force to successfully install peace to a region or conflict. In a humanitarian crisis, the use of force, or at least the credible threat of force is required, without which, protection is unlikely and the conflict is likely to endure. 341 The future of military humanitarianism must be approached with a continuation of the moral concern applied within the 1990’s but without the criminalisation of legitimate action, thus providing the need for further research on appropriate legal reform concerning humanitarian military interventions.
341 Thomas Weiss, ‘RtoP Alive and Well after Libya’, Ethics & International Affairs , Vol 25(3), (2011)
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