Self-determination, sovereignty and intervention

1 where a state commits or fails to prevent genocide or crimes against humanity on its territory 

2 where countries take action to protect their nationals against other states, is such other state harbor international terrorists 

3 where states pursue weapons of mass destruction.  

These three exceptions to the norm against intervention are justified, according to Haass, because sovereignty is conditional, and [w hen states violate minimum standards by committing, permitting, or threatening 

In other words, the Serbian sovereignty over Kosovo had diminished to such a minimum, because of the Serbian government s oppressive policies over Kosovo, that the notion of territorial sovereignty became trumped by the necessity of humanitarian intervention. 

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