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An Uneasy Peace: Multilateral Military Intervention In Civil Wars, Eleanor Lumsden
An Uneasy Peace: Multilateral Military Intervention In Civil Wars, Eleanor Lumsden
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This article will examine seven instances in which a group of states or regional organizations have intervened with military force in an ongoing civil war either because their interests were directly threatened or in order to avert grave humanitarian consequences. Parts I and II will define and explore the various permutations of multilateral and regional intervention. Part III will summarize the legal justifications advanced in favor of or against multilateral military intervention. Part IV will examine, through the use of country case studies, interventions where states either deviated from or ignored completely Article 2(4)'s prohibition against the use of force …