Stacey Henderson

Atrocity Crimes and International Law (eBook, ePUB)

Responsibility to Protect, Intercession, and Non-Forceful Responses

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book illuminates the way in which measures of intercession, inspired by the ideals of Responsibility to Protect (R2P), have provided a solution to the dilemma of articulating when and how the international community may respond to atrocity crimes occurring in other States.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000780635
• Artikelnr.: 65653833

Autorenporträt

Stacey Henderson is a senior lecturer at the College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University. Her research focuses on the protective capacity of law, the responsibility to protect (R2P) and the use of measures less than force to help to protect populations, and the governance of outer space and space technology.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1 A shield for delinquent States
1.1 Shielding delinquent States: sovereignty and the principle of
non-intervention at their highest
1.2 Piercing the shield of sovereignty
1.3 Implementing and operationalising R2P
1.4 Maximising permissible responses to atrocity crimes
2 Intercession as a conceptual tool to examine State practice
2.1 Not a binary choice between doing nothing and using armed force
2.2 Intercession
2.3 Implementing R2P by using measures less than force
2.4 The power of ideas to shape State practice
2.5 Charting a way forward for significantly enhanced international
responses to the commission of atrocity crimes
3 The use of diplomatic measures to respond to atrocity crimes
3.1 The use of diplomatic measures to respond to atrocity crimes
3.2 Softening the hard edges of R2P
4 Economic sanctions: the practice of the United Nations, regional
organisations, and States
4.1 A working definition of economic sanctions
4.2 Legal justification for the imposition of sanctions
4.3 Contemporary sanctions practice
4.4 The significance of contemporary sanctions practice
4.5 An evolving sanctions practice
5 Restriction of means to commit atrocities
5.1 Campaigning for regulation of the international conventional arms trade
5.2 Progress towards the Arms Trade Treaty at the United Nations
5.3 The relevance of R2P for the Arms Trade Treaty
5.4 The treaty text
5.5 State responsibility and the Arms Trade Treaty
5.6 The restraining influence of intercession under R2P
6 Provision of assistance to opposition groups
6.1 The traditional approach
6.2 Evidence of an emerging and different State practice
6.3 A more drastic form of intercession
7 R2P: more than empty rhetoric
7.1 The evolution of foundational principles of international law
7.2 Measures less than the use of force
7.3 R2P in practice
7.4 More than empty words
Index