However the United Nations and indeed humanitarian intervention in general, can be questioned and proven as an unjust reason to intervene both morally and realistically. The power held by international governmental organizations is seen as too great by its critics, making decisions " in a world of multiple issues imperfectly linked" it has the power to intervene "under the guise of humanitarian" concerns . When referring to humanitarianism there is the realist concern that the state is assuming the morality of its citizens, thus pushing its morality on its citizens and undermining the citizen's liberties and freedoms. There is also the concern of a countries own well being as it may become over-run with the refugees it was trying to liberate and/or incite an unfavorable self-image in the foreign country it was trying to help. This is so because it is impossible to reach the victims of oppression without "shaking heaven and earth," thus disrupting another countries institutions and policies and in turn their way of life, not always for the better as seen in Vietnam . Along with the moral questions raised, the UN itself has only a limited capacity to handle the growing number of requests made on it. It is now seen that the states of the world have "overblown expectations" of the UN and without strengthening its resources the effectiveness, performance and credibility of the organization will suffer . In this sense one must also question the equality of UN peacekeeping for we have seen it to be effective in Europe, but it was in their power to intervene in Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Chechnya but they didn't. It is fundamentally hypocritical to use the principle of humanitarianism for Europe and not for the rest of the world; it could even be viewed as being racist . These examples all seem to point in a general direction, towards the impracticality of any authority over the state. For example, when a single country intervenes in a foreign countries affairs and "plays the role of moral judge and moral policeman, it will risk the maximum of distortion and hypocrisy - the maximum of internal backlash if it fails... and the maximum of backlash abroad ". Finally when dealing with individual nations there is always the threat of a double standard, such as proclaiming 'humanitarian abuses' in a foreign state but then using its power solely for economical/political reasons. These are all faults or areas where faults could take place by allowing institutions like the United Nations or Countries like the US to justify having authority over foreign states.

r it seems that it is part of our human nature, when we are more powerful than others, to impose our authority on them for self-beneficial reasons. Thus I disagree with the statement that "in international politics, no authority should supercede the authority of the state" and that establishments like the UN are necessary to protect powerful nation-states from themselves.

I would now like to go back to Rousseau's idea of a Utopian central government. Would an international organization like this not relieve all the problems and dangers presented accompanied by

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