Military Intervention in European conflicts

Abstract

Intervention tends to have one of two types of meanings. On the one hand there is action undertaken in the name of international peace and security. This now has a long history, involving a spectrum of activities from offering the services of mediators, providing monitors and peacekeepers to ensure that agreements are being honoured, supporting directly those offering humanitarian aid to the victims of warfare, interposing forces between the belligerents, and, at the extreme, entering a conflict on behalf of the most aggrieved party.