IJSP is an International, Peer Reviewed/ Refereed, Indexed, Open Access, Online Journal of Arts and Social Sciences. Call for Paper: Vol 12 (02): 2025, Publication date: 31 July 2025 (Online), 15 August 2025 (Print), Last date of Submission : 15 June 2025

Humanitarian Intervention in Iraq in 2003

Rukinder Kaur

Affiliations:

SRF, Ph. D. Scholar, Dept of Political Science, Punjabi University, Patiala. Punjab, INDIA

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The present study reveals the geo-political significance of Iraq and traces the major events in history of Iraq that led to the intervention in 2003. The events of humanitarian intervention in Iraq in 2003 and the impact of this intervention on state sovereignty of Iraq is also examined. It is made clear that any one intervention does not simply violate the sovereignty of any given target state in any one instance; it also challenges the principle of a society of states resting on a system of well-understood and habitually obeyed rules.

Keywords:
Humanitarian intervention, Iraq, State Sovereignty, Human rights, Self-Defense.

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