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Humanitarian Intervention: Motivations and Norms in Cases of Genocide

Thomas, Jaelynn
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1735826112961069

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2024, Master of Arts (MA), Wright State University, International and Comparative Politics.
In 1948, the international community came together and promised to “prevent and punish” genocides under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide Convention). Despite the Genocide Convention’s commitment to humanitarian intervention, states are selective and inconsistent in intervention. While there are many case studies done on state motivation for intervention, statistical studies are rarely done and a system for predicting what variables will likely produce humanitarian intervention on a wide scale has not been explored. This study uses a Cross-Sectional Time Series Estimator Model to track whether states were more likely to intervene in genocides over time since signing the Genocide Convention. It also tested whether valuable goods and shared borders made states more prone to intervention. The results concluded that the Genocide Convention has no correlation to states willingness to intervene in genocides. It also did not provide evidence that valuable goods are a factor in humanitarian intervention. The test did support the hypothesis that shared borders make states more likely to intervene in genocides. Future studies should focus on increasing the data pool to include more genocides and testing more variables in hopes of creating a system to predict humanitarian intervention in genocides.
Liam Anderson, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Vaughn Shannon, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Carlos Costa, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
70 p.
International Relations; Political Science
Genocide; Humanitarian Intervention; Statistical analysis; IR Theory

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  • Thomas, J. (2024). Humanitarian Intervention: Motivations and Norms in Cases of Genocide [Master's thesis, Wright State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1735826112961069

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Thomas, Jaelynn. Humanitarian Intervention: Motivations and Norms in Cases of Genocide. 2024. Wright State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1735826112961069.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Thomas, Jaelynn. "Humanitarian Intervention: Motivations and Norms in Cases of Genocide." Master's thesis, Wright State University, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wright1735826112961069

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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