TABLE OF CONTENTS PARTICULARS; ACKNOWLEDGMENT; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; ABSTRACT; CHAPTER I· CHANGING DIMENSIONS OF STATE SOVEREIGNTY; o INTRODUCTION; o STATE SOVEREIGNTY-CONCEPT,EVOLUTION AND DOWNFALL; o IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW ON SOVEREIGNTY; o REASONS FOR STATES KNOWINGLY SURRENDERING THEIR SOVEREIGNTY BY RATIFYING ROME STATUTE; CHAPTER II· PRINCIPLE OF NON·INTERVENTION AND NON·USE OF FORCE: CUSTOMARY NORM WITH CHANGING INTERPRETATIONS; o INTRODUCTION; o MILL'S PRINCIPLES OF NONINTERVENTION; o EVOLUTION OF THE PRINCIPLE OF NONINTERVENTION AND USE OF FORCE; o NON-INTERVENTION RULE OF TREATY LAW; o NON-INTERVENTION RULE OF CUSTOMARY LAW; CHAPTER III· HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION: JOURNEY FROM HUMANITY TO POWER POLITICS; o INTRODUCTION; o HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION AS CUSTOMARY INTERNATIONAL LAW; o HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION: EXCEPTION OR BREACH; o ABUSE OF HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION ESTATES; o THE RENAISSANCE OF POWER POLITICS IN HUMANITARIAN CLOTHES: THE END OF INTERNATIONAL LAW; CHAPTER IV· CASE STUDY: ENDING TYRANNY IN IRAQ· A DENIAL OF JUSTICE; o INTRODUCTION; o TYRANNY- A JUSTIFICATION FOR; HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION?; o STANDARDS OF HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION VS. WAR IN IRAQ; o US JUSTIFICATIONS FOR UNILATERAL USE OF FORCE IN IRAQ: HUMANITY AN AFTER THOUGHT; CHAPTER V· RECOMMENDATIONS AND CONCLUSION; REFERENCES.