Legitemacy

1. According to Michael Walzer, what is sufficient cause for humanitarian intervention?
Humanitarian intervention is justified as a response to acts that shock the moral conscience of mankind.

2.What are NOT sufficient causes? Why does Walzer argue against international intervention in these cases?
The violation of human rights is in itselft insufficient justification for intervention, orthe intervention in the sake of democracy isn't enough reason either because of the posibility of imperial powers to be looking after expanding their empires by intervening in civil wars sinceintervention can easily be used as an excuse for anexation.

3. What 3 examples of justified international intervention does Walzer mention?
By India in Bangladesh in 1971
By Tanzania in Uganda in 1979By Vietnam in Cambodia in 1979

4. What risk is there to using Walzer’s criterion?
Using “conscience of mankind” as the criteria to intervention, since it depends in context of the situation and itchanges according to the society's perspective.

5. What “new and improved” criteria has the UN proposed?
Kofi Annan suggested intervention to be justified when death and suffering are beinginflicted on large number of people and the state in charge in unable or unwilling to stop it.

6. How is genocide defined?
Genocide is defined as the commitment of any of the following acts with intentto distroy in whole or in part a group by:
1. Killing members of the group
2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions oflife calculated to bring about its physical destruction
4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
5. Forcibly transfering children of the group to another group

7. How isa crime against humanity different from genocide?
Crimes against humanity are similar to genocide when comparing the awful acts they involve, however genocide refers to an specific group of people and...