Humanitarian occupation /

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Author / Creator:	Fox, Gregory H., 1961- author.
Imprint:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 320 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge studies in international and comparative law ; 59 Cambridge studies in international and comparative law (Cambridge, England : 1996) ; 59.
Subject:	Humanitarian intervention.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12597187

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ISBN:	9780511619816 (ebook) 9780521856003 (hardback) 9780521671897 (paperback)
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Summary:	This book analyzes a new phenomenon in international law: international organizations assuming the powers of a national government in order to reform political institutions. After reviewing the history of internationalized territories, this book asks two questions about these 'humanitarian occupations'. First, why did they occur? The book argues that the missions were part of a larger trend in international law to maintain existing states and their populations. The only way this could occur in these territories, which had all seen violent internal conflict, was for international administrators to take charge. Second, what is the legal justification for the missions? The book examines each of the existing justifications and finds them wanting. A new foundation is needed, one that takes account of the missions' authorisation by the UN Security Council and their pursuit of goals widely supported in the international community.
Other form:	Print version: 9780521856003

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