GS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Patriot Act, Hague Conventions Of 1899 And 1907, Humanitarian Intervention
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Gs 101 - a: lecture: tuesday november 21st and thursday november 23rd: There are many international laws of armed conflict designed to try to regulate and control welfare: united nations, hague conventions, geneva conventions. International law says that states may fight only if all of the following criteria are met: just cause. 1. all countries have the inherent, natural right to go to war in self-defence when facing aggression. 2. all countries have the inherent, natural right of other-defence (collective security) to go to war as an act of aid to any country victimized by aggression. 3. any other use of force, such as a pre-emptive strike or an armed humanitarian intervention, is not an inherent, natural right of states: proportionality. Every law is supposed to have a proportion, or balance, between problem and solution (or between violation and response) International law commands that the problem in question be serious enough that war is a proper reply.
