ABSTRACT
This chapter describes two global policy regimes: the traditional, state sovereignty-based policy regime mandating international restraint, and the more contemporary and rising nation/human rights-based policy regime demanding intervention. It addresses the puzzle and its corresponding questions by considering them through the multiple-aperture lens of international law, norms governing and determining right and proper behaviour within the international system, and the behaviour of states in the international system. The chapter discusses several key contemporary cases of internationalized internal conflicts, cases which illustrate the struggle between the regimes. It provides a discussion on implications for future United States (US) foreign policy and American hegemony. Preparing for and responding to the increased range of threats to national security has become the grand challenge facing the US and in fact all member nation-states of the globalizing international system. Human security has emerged as its own domain of transnational politics, with a potential for dramatically reshaping international politics, and transforming US intervention politics and policy.
