I opposed military intervention for two reasons.

Furthermore, military or semi military intervention is not the only option on the table.

Here too, however, actual military intervention should only be a last resort.

French and British military intervention was successful in Libya in 2011 at least in part as a result of US military procurement.

The boycott was launched in response to the Crimean crisis and the Russian military intervention in Ukraine.

Although this called the legality of the action into question, the intervention benefited from a widespread sense of political legitimacy that limited its negative effects on international order.

Few suggest that French military intervention was a means to recapture its colonial empire.

Some believe that military interventions can serve as a useful course correction.

European interest in military intervention in Africa is as low as ever.

The french intervention in Mali does not bother anyone whereas similar actions by the USA would have raised a storm of protests..

The introduction of chemical weapons and the possibility of Western military intervention threaten to draw Israel directly into the conflict.

No one in his right mind suggested that military intervention in China would be a good idea.

But military intervention in Darfur without the Sudanese government s consent is not an option today.

While military intervention in Syria may be impossible, imposing a no fly zone is not.

This means a strategy based on political leverage not a threat of military intervention or regime change.

This justifies, in the view of those imagining, the military intervention that has been seen in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Europe s other natural interventionist, Great Britain, has its hands more than full in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Germany remains reluctant to intervene in general, and in a conflict that so directly involves Israel in particular, leaving only France to act.

Hollande supported the military intervention in Libya in 2011, and has joined the condemnation of Syrian President Bashar al Assad s regime.

Its example shows that military intervention should always be followed by active State building.

Poland has also led on European defense (though it declined to take part in the military intervention in Libya).

In particular, they shared the neo cons conviction that military intervention is a legitimate and effective way of achieving political change.

I considered the imminent humanitarian disaster that the intervention was ostensibly aimed at preventing, to be largely an invention.

Kosovo, to a significant degree, owes its independence to a NATO military intervention undertaken in the name of human rights.

Military intervention would merely further complicate the issue, while creating new layers of conflict in our region and beyond.

In the case of the resolution on military intervention in Libya, the BRICS decided to let Col. Muammar el Qaddafi be overthrown.

If we continue to delay military action, we will have to intervene with greater force when the carnage spreads to Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Turkey, and Iraq.

Moreover, budget restrictions have severely constrained French military capabilities. French and British military intervention was successful in Libya in 2011 at least in part as a result of US military procurement.

As with Syria now, Russian support for the Serbian side two decades ago was one of the factors that prevented military intervention.

Citing the British mission to Sierra Leone, Collier argues for military intervention, when feasible, to secure peace.

However, the lightness of the punishments only encouraged more attempted military intervention in the government, cumulating with the February 26 Incident of 1936.

In the 1980s, there was a large solidarity movement that developed in the U.S. in response to America s military intervention in Central America.

The possibility of military intervention in Syria, together with the deteriorating situation in Egypt since the army s coup, has placed the region on a razor s edge.

More generally, military interference with civilian politics, for any reason, weakens the processes, institutions, and checks on state power that make liberal democracy work.

But, while the rejection of humanitarian military intervention had an element of tragedy in that case, Germany s behavior today is pure farce.

For Turkey to consider military intervention in Kurdistan, EU member states would first have to renege on their commitment to negotiate Turkish accession.

We must build greater consensus around the need for collective action and early diplomatic response, which can eliminate the need for military intervention.

First, I argued that while it might do local good, it would damage the rules of international relations as they were then understood.

In Syria, a Libyan style military intervention is not warranted, but diplomatic intervention is needed to allow the country's people to determine its future.

Foreign military intervention can effect regime change, but it evidently cannot reestablish order based on centralized government.

On 18 April, the headquarters of the Khamis Brigade near Tripoli was bombed and destroyed by NATO planes that took part in the 2011 military intervention in Libya.

The responsibility to protect sought to recast the issue in terms of responsibility rather than rights, and protection rather than intervention, while identifying a wide spectrum of appropriate preventive and reactive responses, with coercive military intervention only a last resort.

Given the US record since the doctrine was formulated, another criterion should be added the main beneficiaries of military intervention are not America s mortal enemies.

Even Nigeria's Goodluck Jonathan, who heads the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and supports military intervention against Gbagbo, cannot escape such scrutiny unscathed.

Of course, military intervention for purposes beyond defending one s country remains possible, but requires a UN Security Council resolution.

Deeply concerned at the continuation of acts or threats of foreign military intervention and occupation that are threatening to suppress, or have already suppressed, the right to self determination of peoples and nations,