ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the nonmilitary forms of international intervention that often precede and presage a humanitarian crisis, focusing particularly on the politics of structural adjustment and the post-Cold War politics of conditionality that attach to economic aid. It considers how these policies contribute to human rights violations in Africa. These human rights violations especially concern the deprivation of basic needs, which increase in regions that contain poverty and deprivation of the right to development. The chapter focuses on nonmilitary international intervention, especially in respect of international institutions concerned with Africa's economic development. It aims to demonstrate the nature of power politics in the relationship between Africa and the Western world and the consequent effects of outside interventions in Africa. It is apparent that the debt crisis represents one form of power politics and another form of forcing African states, in collaboration with Western financial institutions, to violate human rights and deprive people of their rights to development.
