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Is Humanitarian Intervention Legal? The Rule of Law in an Incoherent World.
- Source :
- Ethics & International Affairs; Sep2011, Vol. 25 Issue 3, p293-313, 21p
- Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- The paper asks whether humanitarian intervention is legal and reviews contemporary legal arguments on both sides. It finds that both views are sustainable by conventional accounts of the sources of international law; humanitarian intervention is at once legal and illegal. The paper then considers the implications of this for the idea of the rule of law in world politics. The power of international law in this case comes from its utility as a resource for justifying state policies, not as a means for distinguishing compliance from non-compliance. Law remains important to world politics, but in a different way than usually understood. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Subjects :
- HUMANITARIAN intervention
RULE of law
INTERNATIONAL law
INTERNATIONAL relations
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 08926794
- Volume :
- 25
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Ethics & International Affairs
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 84306110
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S089267941100027X