Rethinking Foreign Military Interventions to Promote Human Rights
Evidence from Libya, Bahrain and Syria
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6238464 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mohammed Nuruzzaman (0000-0002-1815-4273, Gulf University for Science & Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 531-552 |
| Publication date | 2015-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4239 • E-ISSN: 1744-9324 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0008423915000803 |
| OpenAlex | W2270905597 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 22 |
Scholarly opinions on the linkages between foreign military interventions and human rights promotions or violations are highly divided across the board. While many scholars see military interventions as effective means to save and promote human lives and rights from the clutches of repressive regimes, others reject such interventions as harmful to domestic reconciliations and rights promotions. The Arab Spring has renewed the debates between the liberal enthusiasts who staunchly supported NATO's military intervention to free up the Libyans from the Gaddafi regime and the critics who saw creeping dangers in this new intervention, ostensibly inspired by the “responsibility to protect” doctrine. This paper investigates the issue of Arab Spring-led foreign direct and indirect military interventions in Libya, Bahrain and Syria and critically examines the consequences of interventions for improvements or decline in Arab human rights conditions. Its findings support the position of the anti-intervention scholars that foreign military interventions produce deleterious effects on human rights in the target states
Democracy · Development economics · Economics · Human rights · Intervention (counseling · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Psychological intervention · Responsibility to Protect · Sociology · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Psychology
Democratic Jihad ? Military Intervention And Democracy
Economic sanctions and human rights
R2P's ‘Structural’ Problems
The ‘Responsibility to Protect’ and the Structural Problems of Preventive Humanitarian Intervention
RtoP Alive and Well after Libya
The Permanence of Inconsistency
Syria and its Neighbours
Russia, Syria and the Doctrine of Intervention
Is the New Middle East Stuck in Its Sectarian Past? The Unspoken Dimension of the “Arab Spring”
Does Foreign Military Intervention Help Human Rights
A Hand upon the Throat of the Nation
Intervention and Democracy
Syria and the perils of proxy warfare
Politics, Economics and Saudi Military Intervention in Bahrain
The Iraqi Intervention and Democracy in Comparative Historical Perspective
Better or Worse? The Effect of Economic Sanctions on Human Rights
The Responsibility to Protect and the problem of military intervention
Sanctioning Madness
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2022 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |