Humanitarian intervention after the Cold War has been a major discussion in international relations theories. The term intervention generally has a negative connotation as it defines the coercive interference by external subjects in a sovereign state that belongs to the community. The humanitarian intervention carried out by international institutions and individual sovereign states has often been linked to the use of military force. Therefore, intervention is often perceived as a means to prevent sovereign states from committing human rights abuses against their own populations. This essay will focus on the key concepts that enable humanitarian intervention mainly in the field of morality and justice in international society. This essay will also contribute some arguments against humanitarian intervention from different aspects of international relations theory theories. The issue of human rights arose only in the post-Cold War period, when it was addressed by an international institution which is the United Nations. In the preamble of the United Nations it is stated that human rights are given to all human beings and that there is equality for all. There will be no sovereign states that will prevent its people from taking these rights. The globalization of capitalism after the Cold War makes the issue of human rights seem admirable, as there has been suffering in other parts of the world. This is because Western states are believed to be the champions of democracy and therefore provide a perfect body to carry out human rights activities. Such human suffering occurs in a sovereign state. The humanitarian intervention led by the international institution will be carried out to put an end to the threat. Here we analyze humanitarian intervention... half of the paper... University Press. 7 December 200910. Wheeler, Nicholas J. 'Pluralist or solidaristic conceptions of international society: Bull and Vincent on humanitarian intervention', Millennium: Journal of International Studies 21,3 (1992)11. Wheeler, Nicholas J. Saving Strangers - Humanitarian Intervention in International Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. Oxford Online Scholarship. Oxford University Press. December 7, 200912. Wight, Martin. "Four fundamental thinkers in international theory: Machiavelli, Grotius, Kant and Mazzini". Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. (Oxford Scholarship Online. Oxford University Press) 7 December 200913. http://www.un.org/en/documents/charter/preamble.shtml (accessed at 7/12/2009)