Sarah E. Whitesell

In the past two years, the leading democratic nations increasingly feel it was their responsibility to interfere in what has traditionally been considered the internal matters of other states. The largest intervention since the Gulf War occurred when western states intervened in Iraq on behalf of the Kurds. The western democracies, encouraged by nations from all corners of the world, provided humanitarian relief and a degree of security so that the Kurdish refugees could come down from the moun-tains on the border of Iraq, where starvation and intense cold threatened their survival. Invoking the doctrine of humanitarian intervention, these states acted to protect international peace and security but met resistance states acted to protect international peace and security but met resistance in the fundamental notion of state sovereignty.[1]

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