Traditional national security concepts have been changing to human security concepts since the end of the Cold War. With globalization, international relations centered on state have focused on new issues such as human rights, genocide, etc. For examp...
Traditional national security concepts have been changing to human security concepts since the end of the Cold War. With globalization, international relations centered on state have focused on new issues such as human rights, genocide, etc. For example, the United Nations adopted a resolution applying the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) during the Libyan Civil War in 2011.
Humanitarian intervention and R2P mean the challenge of the international order. In other words, interventionism to protect moral responsibility, justice and human rights supporting humanitarian intervention and R2P is conflicting with the principle of non-intervention and the principle of non-use of force.
In this background, this study aims to overcome such confrontations through Grotius rationalism and expand the foundation of international regimes on humanitarian intervention. To this end, first, this study defines the concept of humanitarian intervention and theoretical confrontation. It then explains humanitarian intervention and R2P through Just War, Lex caritatis, Natural Law, Solidarity, etc. of Grotius rationalism. Also, the study reveals the result of the international regime formation by jus cogens and 'International Society' of English School which succeeded rationalism. In addition, the study examines the implications of current humanitarian intervention and R2P by analyzing the Kosovo war, the Libyan civil war, and the Syrian civil war with Grotius rationalism.
As a result, this study sheds light on the legitimacy of humanitarian intervention and protection responsibility and the importance of human security with theoretical scalability provided by Grotius rationalism. It is significant that this study sought institutional development in the international community.