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Item Open Access Doctrine and practice of humanitarian interventions(2008) Kocaman, AyşegülHumanitarian intervention lies at the center of contradictory relations between the principle of state sovereignty and the responsibility to protect human rights. Whereas some theorists define humanitarian interventions as violation of the basic principle of international law and relations, that is the non-intervention principle, and other theorists see humanitarian interventions as the legal and legitimate way of protecting the security of all humanity in the world. The purpose of this study is to contend that the international community has the responsibility to intervene to prevent humanitarian crises. The emerging norm of “responsibility to protect” is getting wider acceptance and support among the scholars in the literature; although no consensus on the legitimacy of humanitarian interventions has been achieved so far. This research also attempts to clarify that the legality and legitimacy of humanitarian interventions is limited to the cases of threats to international peace and security and where there is prior authorization by the United Nations Security Council based on the Charter.Item Open Access Non-material sources of Turkish Armed Forces' political power : a "military in society" approach(2007) Biltekin, GoncaThis thesis is an attempt to understand the non-material sources of Turkish Armed Forces’ political power. For that purpose, the thesis looks at theories of power and relevant civil-military relations literature and illustrates that the current civil-military relations literature employs an institution-based formal decisionmaking approach to military’s political power, where non-material sources of armed forces political power is mostly overlooked. Moreover, current literature presumes the existence of a conflictual relationship between the military and the society where interests of the society and the military clash. Therefore, there is a theoretical gap which makes it problematic to study armies like Turkish Armed Forces, which enjoy a long-term and considerable support from their societies. In order to provide for an answer to such a gap, the thesis develops a “military in society” approach and establishes that the political power of the Turkish Armed Forces emanates from its distinctive relationship with its society which has historical, cultural, social and discursive dimensions.Item Open Access United Nations and unilateral military interventions : admissible justifications in the United Nations' responses(2003) Kınacıoğlu, MügeThis study on the United Nations’ approach to unilateral military interventions is an analysis of the concept of military intervention in the domestic affairs of states and its normative development in international politics. In this context, the main purpose of the study is to discover the normative trends of legitimization in the organs of the United Nations (Security Council and General Assembly) and to assess the permissible state justifications of military intervention as endorsed by the United Nations. More specifically, it aims to expose the principle of non-intervention to inspection and exception, and inquire the extent of United Nations’ contribution to the development of international norms and trends with respect to military intervention in domestic affairs. For this purpose, the primary focus of the study is in general on the stance, and in particular on the decisions and actions taken by the main United Nations organs concerning the legality and legitimacy of military interventions undertaken by a state or group of states in the domestic affairs of another state with reference to individual cases. Examining the United Nations’ responses to individual cases of military intervention, the study finds that the United Nations has consistently declined the permissibility of unilateral military interventions in circumstances other than those stipulated by the Charter. Thus, the study concludes that the United Nations practice indicates substantial adherence to the Charter scheme regarding the prohibition of the use of force and the principle of non-intervention in internal affairs.