Humanitarian Occupation: 59 (Cambridge Studies in Inteational and Comparative Law, Series Number 59)

by: Gregory H . Fox (Author)

Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1st edition (21 Feb. 2008)

Language: English

Print length: 336 pages

ISBN-10: 0521856000

ISBN-13: 9780521856003

Book Description

This book analyzes a new phenomenon in inteational law: inteational organizations assuming the powers of a national govement in order to reform political institutions. After reviewing the history of inteationalized 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 inteational law to maintain existing states and their populations. The only way this could occur in these territories, which had all seen violent inteal conflict, was for inteational 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 inteational community.