Keywords
UN
UN Charter
Humanitarian Intervention
self-defense
Europe
U.S.A
How to Cite
Abstract
The allied invasion in Iraq and its aftermath highlight considerable discrepancies in the attitude towards the use of force between the current US administration and most EU member States. Still, both sides of the Atlantic are firmly committed to the UN Charter and the binding force of public international law. There is considerable unity in the possible justification of humanitarian intervention. The main point of contention lies in the different perception of preventive self-defense.
Together with other members of the international community, the US and the European Union should work towards a common set of criteria for intervention which clearly respects the prerogatives of UN Security Council for the maintenance and restoration of peace and international security.
This journal is registered under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License. Thus, this work may be reproduced, distributed, and publicly shared in digital format, as long as the names of the authors and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana are acknowledged. Others are allowed to quote, adapt, transform, auto-archive, republish, and create based on this material, for any purpose (even commercial ones), provided the authorship is duly acknowledged, a link to the original work is provided, and it is specified if changes have been made. Pontificia Universidad Javeriana does not hold the rights of published works and the authors are solely responsible for the contents of their works; they keep the moral, intellectual, privacy, and publicity rights.
Approving the intervention of the work (review, copy-editing, translation, layout) and the following outreach, are granted through an use license and not through an assignment of rights. This means the journal and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cannot be held responsible for any ethical malpractice by the authors. As a consequence of the protection granted by the use license, the journal is not required to publish recantations or modify information already published, unless the errata stems from the editorial management process. Publishing contents in this journal does not generate royalties for contributors.