Operation to protect the Yezidis in 2014: from intervention by invitation to humanitarian intervention and responsibility to protect? Cover Image

Operacja w obronie jezydów w 2014 roku: od interwencji na zaproszenie do interwencji humanitarnej i odpowiedzialności za ochronę?
Operation to protect the Yezidis in 2014: from intervention by invitation to humanitarian intervention and responsibility to protect?

Author(s): Arkadiusz Domagała
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Yezidis; humanitarian intervention; responsibility to protect;Iraq;

Summary/Abstract: The article presents an issue of the intervention to protect the Yezidis started in August 2014 in northern Iraq. The United States, the crucial intervener, had the consent of the Iraqi government to conduct military operations in favour of its territorial integrity and to protect Iraqi citizens. However, there were also other interveners and the military actions took place nor only in the Iraqi territory. The author of the article argues that in the military operation to protect the Yezidi people, much more elements of humanitarian intervention than of the responsibility to protect can be found. Thus the various components of the military action in 2014 to protect the Yezidis were presented through the prism of ideas of humanitarian intervention and responsibility to protect.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 25
  • Page Range: 121-137
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Polish