The state versus the individual [electronic resource] : the unresolved dilemma of humanitarian intervention / by Katariina Simonen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simonen, Katariina.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanitarian intervention.

Intervention (International law).

Human rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Whether States, coalitions of States or inter-governmental organizations can engage in humanitarian intervention lawfully without the UN Security Council´s authorization has been debated at length. Following NATO´s intervention in Kosovo in 1999, the international lawgiver had to act. The result was the concept of the responsibility to protect. But the fundamental question of the legality of humanitarian intervention remained. This book takes a new approach by combining legal theory and international law. Legal theory enables the concept of legal validity to be better understood and permits the question to be evaluated thoroughly in international law. The outcome is that the international lawgiver has to confront the hard problem whether or not there is enough interest for human rights protection.

Contents:

"Humanitarian intervention norm is valid" : norm proposition, validity and interpretation in legal theory

Common interest as a basis of law

Use of armed force under the United Nations Charter

An empirical appraisal of state and IGO practice vis-a-vis NATO's allied force operation in Kosovo

Beyond Kosovo : responsibility to protect.

Notes:

Originally presented as the author's thesis (LL.D.)--University of Turku, 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-51459-1

9786613827043

90-04-22188-3

OCLC:

751962286

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004221888 DOI