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Supranationalism And The Superpower Rubicon, Imtiaz Hussain
Supranationalism And The Superpower Rubicon, Imtiaz Hussain
Human Rights & Human Welfare
A review of:
The Chapter VII Powers of the United Nations Security Council by Erika de Wet. Portland, OR: Hart Publishing, 2004. 413pp.
Is Unilateral Humanitarian Intervention Compatible With The U.N. Charter?, Petr Valek
Is Unilateral Humanitarian Intervention Compatible With The U.N. Charter?, Petr Valek
Michigan Journal of International Law
The main topic of this Note is the compatibility of unilateral humanitarian intervention with Article 2(4) of the U.N. Charter (the Charter). Through its interpretation, the author will attempt to discover whether the Grotian idea of unilateral humanitarian intervention can survive in the environment of contemporary international law without its "just war appendix." This Note will separate this idea from its "just war justification" and approach the question of the compatibility of such intervention with the Charter as a legal positivist. In the interpretation of Article 2(4) of the Charter, this Note will try to avoid moral principles. Instead, it …