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Abstract

This short article is designed to look at the long term implications of the French Foreign Minister’s suggestion of sending offensive humanitarian aid into the cyclone ravaged areas of Burma. The dangers suggested herein are not the immediate effects of the humanitarian invasion of Burma, but an analysis of the precedent set by such action.  If the United Nations gives preference to its Responsibility to Protect (R2P) over its duty to promote peace in the world, the stability of international relations could be undermined. If the precedent set under the Westphalia treaties (1648) are vacated, then who will decide what it is a “moral duty” and who will decide who is allowed to breach the sovereignty?  After analyzing the precedent which would be set by humanitarian invasion, this article will compare the present situation in Burma to a similar situation occurring in North Korea (a situation which, under a hypothetical precedent set by humanitarian invasion into Burma, is inviting international action against another sovereign state).

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