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States' motivations for launching humanitarian military interventions are reconsidered. After contemplating circumstances that limit states' ability to intervene in humanitarian crises, it is stressed that conventional realist thought discourages states from dispatching military forces to deal with widespread human rights violations. Although most Western leaders, particularly the US president, possess considerable flexibility in ascertaining whether armed forces should be mobilized to confront humanitarian crises, it is asserted that national & international interests strongly influence states' willingness to become involved in ethnic conflicts & nations experiencing gross human rights violations; examples from the former Yugoslavia & the Kosovo War are cited to demonstrate the US government's culpability for allowing humanitarian crises to continue & for permitting revenge acts. Even though the international community has stressed the integration of human rights guidelines into nations' foreign policies, it is concluded that realist perspectives will continue to exert substantial influence over states' reasons for deploying military forces to address humanitarian crises. J. W. Parker

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