Abstract:
Have international organizations, on top of them the United Nations, succeeded in making the international humanitarian intervention humanitarian? What is the role of international organizations in international humanitarian intervention? This thesis will discuss in depth the role of international organizations regarding the matter of international humanitarian intervention from a military perspective, with a focus on international military interventions that took place in Iraq, Libya, and Syria. It will be specifically looking into the differences and similarities in the objectives. The impacts of humanitarian interventions will also be analyzed in depth while basing the arguments on Keneth Watlz's analysis of international relations, which represent the neorealist approach. In other words, the aim of this study is to come up with an answer to the question whether the humanitarian intervention was conducted for humanitarian purposes as the United Nations wanted them to be or are there any hidden Great Power motives behind it. The humanitarian interventions in Iraq, Libya and Syria will be searched in-depth to answer this main question.
