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Slow Down: New Interventionism, Yubo Song
Slow Down: New Interventionism, Yubo Song
Michigan Journal of International Law
Review of The New Interventionism 1991-1994: United Nations Experience in Cambodia, Former Yugoslavia and Somalia (James Mayall ed.)
United Nations Intervention In Internal Conflicts: Iraq, Somalia, And Beyond, Ruth Gordon
United Nations Intervention In Internal Conflicts: Iraq, Somalia, And Beyond, Ruth Gordon
Michigan Journal of International Law
Part I of this article will examine the concept of domestic jurisdiction. One of the principal purposes of the United Nations is the maintenance of international peace and security, which in 1946 was thought to essentially entail maintaining the peace between nation States. Internal power struggles and conflicts were thought to be within the jurisdiction of the State where they took place, unless they posed a rather substantial "threat" to the peace. Thus, the drafters of the U.N. Charter made sharp distinctions between internal and international conflicts. For instance, the Charter generally proscribes international, but not domestic, conflict, and the …