ABSTRACT
Successful unilateral interventions provide support to the stronger side of the ethnic conflicts, which are usually but not always the governments of the target countries, thus minimizing operational costs and losses for themselves. Compositional parity among the members of multilateral intervention also helps to overcome the problems of neutrality and impartiality of the members of multilateral coalitions and contributes to their acceptability by local communities. Since the coalition members bring along their own interests to the coalition, the stronger they are, the more likely they are to influence the organizational decision making process and to put their own bias to the operations of the coalitions. States intervene if they view a particular situation in the target country as violating the principles on the basis of which their own domestic society or the institutional arrangements of which they are a part operate.
