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  • 2 - Intervention as a Corrective in International Politics

  • from Part I - Interventionism and Humanitarianism under the Sign of Internationalism
  • Fabian Klose, Universität zu Köln
  • Book:
    In the Cause of Humanity
    Published online:
    25 November 2021
    Print publication:
    09 December 2021, pp 30-38

  • Summary

    The function of intervention, in this context, was to act as a corrective in international politics. Fundamental questions posed by this practice of intervention by force in the internal affairs of a sovereign state are addressed in Chapter 2, which locates them in the context of the Vienna order. What can be observed here is, first, the emergence of an anti-revolutionary paradigm of intervention, by means of which the ‘Holy Alliance’, made up of the continental powers Russia, Austria and Prussia, made a collective attempt to prevent and suppress internal unrest and revolutionary movements. Second, and in parallel to these efforts, the British struggle to suppress the Atlantic slave trade gave birth to a further-reaching conception of intervention centred on the military enforcement of an internationally agreed humanitarian norm.