| The key factor making war a more attractive option than diplomacy is the collapse of any popular support for the principle of non-intervention. |
| The effectiveness of an intervention has to be judged relative to non-intervention. |
| He was a man who believed in non-intervention, non-coercion, non-violence in the era of the Cold War. |
| Moreover, collective security had been developed within the framework of a clearly defined inter-state order enshrining principles of sovereignty and non-intervention. |
| Furthermore many armies have a long and determined tradition of non-intervention in civil affairs. |
| A return to the traditional conservative values of non-intervention and prudence is called for. |
