| Summary: | 碩士 === 南華大學 === 歐洲研究所 === 98 === "Non-Intervention" is an international political general principle. Protecting and obeying this principle not only ensures one''s existence, but also others. Although the non-intervention principle had sometimes been challenged and violated in the past, these actions were no doubt illegal and against the "Charter of United Nation" and existing international laws. It can only be said that "the weak is the prey of the strong" and as a result, cannot become a convention in international laws. However, in the post-Cold War era after the Soviet Union collapsed, the United States, with her incomparable power and NATO''s solid strength, proceeded humanitarian interventions in several countries that were charged against human right. Those actions had clearly overturned the 1648 treaty of Westphalia, which upheld the right of sovereign states to act freely within their own borders, and the right of humanitarian intervention in cases where governments fail their own people seems to become a new fashion of international laws. In this paper, we will not talk about the legality problem of the American military intervention or the rise and decline of American hegemony. We will focus on the great powers in Western Europe, namely France, Germany and the United Kingdom. By analyzing their positions and actions in a series of military interventions in the Bosnia and Kosovo crises, it is expected to realize the implications of the trend that humanitarian intervention might in some extreme circumstances override sovereignty on the international system today.
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