Selfless intervention : exercising jurisdiction in the common interest / Cedric Ryngaert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ryngaert, Cedric, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intervention (International law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

Discussing under what conditions states can take unilateral action to promote the interests of the international community, this title puts forward an argument in favour of unilateral action in the common interest, but suggests a number of restraining techniques to limit its intrusiveness.

Contents:

International Law and Cosmopolitanism

Selfless Intervention: The Promise of Unilateral Jurisdiction

Selfless Jurisdiction and the National Interest: Between Cosmopolitanism and Parochialism

Limitations to the Exercise of Prescriptive Jurisdiction in the Common Interest

The Selfless Exercise of Jurisdiction to Protect Human Rights and the Environment

Concluding Observations.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-259271-8

0-19-188635-1

0-19-259270-X