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- Title: Intervening Interests: Humanitarian and Pro-Democratic Intervention in the Asia-Pacific.
- Author : Australian International Law Journal
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 353 KB
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Abstract Whilst the Asia-Pacific has been the arena of two significant military operations since 1999, the academic discussion surrounding humanitarian and pro-democratic intervention has tended to focus on the paradigm cases in Africa and Europe. Focusing particularly on the concept of the Responsibility to Protect ('R2P'), as well as the criteria elaborated by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS), this article seeks to illuminate the debate in the Asia-Pacific regional context. Concentrating on the interventions in East Timor and Solomon Islands, it examines the Howard Government's approach to legal and procedural questions of intervention, with a view to determining the impact on the evolving normative framework for intervention. Specifically, it will highlight the way in which consent has emerged as a fundamental prerequisite to intervention, a requirement that can easily come to undermine effective international responses and foment prevarication as humanitarian disasters unfold. The Rudd Government appears more committed to the emerging R2P doctrine, but the question remains whether the international community is committed to the full practical implications of the R2P--under what circumstances it will, in practice, be willing to respond militarily to a humanitarian crisis without the consent of the State concerned.