Humanitarian Intervention and Great Power Management in a Post-hegemonic World Order

TY - CHAP

T1 - Humanitarian Intervention and Great Power Management in a Post-hegemonic World Order

AU - Jakobsen, Peter Viggo

AU - Knudsen, Tonny Brems

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - This chapter examines the resort to humanitarian intervention in the unfolding post-hegemonic, multipolar and regionalized world order with Libya, Côte d’Ivoire, Syria and Mali as the main cases. It argues that humanitarian crisis management at the United Nations Security Council is shaped by the underlying fundamental institution of great power management and the associated practices of concert, soft balancing and hard balancing, which are back as real options after the end of US hegemony. Furthermore, there is strong evidence that great power agreement on humanitarian intervention and the legitimacy of such steps depends on the initiatives and involvement of regional organizations. In the African context, the regional organizations typically seek to align humanitarian principles with concerns for state building. This indicates that humanitarian intervention has become post-hegemonic, rather than obsolete.

AB - This chapter examines the resort to humanitarian intervention in the unfolding post-hegemonic, multipolar and regionalized world order with Libya, Côte d’Ivoire, Syria and Mali as the main cases. It argues that humanitarian crisis management at the United Nations Security Council is shaped by the underlying fundamental institution of great power management and the associated practices of concert, soft balancing and hard balancing, which are back as real options after the end of US hegemony. Furthermore, there is strong evidence that great power agreement on humanitarian intervention and the legitimacy of such steps depends on the initiatives and involvement of regional organizations. In the African context, the regional organizations typically seek to align humanitarian principles with concerns for state building. This indicates that humanitarian intervention has become post-hegemonic, rather than obsolete.

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-97711-5_11

DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-97711-5_11

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 978-3-030-97710-8

T3 - Palgrave Studies in International Relations

SP - 257

EP - 278

BT - Power Transition in the Anarchical Society

A2 - Knudsen, Tonny Brems

A2 - Navari, Cornelia

PB - Palgrave Macmillan

CY - Cham

ER -