PHIL 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Kofi Annan, Lloyd Axworthy, International Criminal Court
4 Nov 2016
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Question of how to express our commitment to human rights in international. )nternational law traditionally framed in terms of states" rights (cid:523)specifically, sovereignty) and gives little room for action in cases where states" rights conflicts with individual human rights: civil wars, but also famines, etc. At the limit, can there be a moral case for foreign military intervention in such cases: law says no. Written while annan was still in his first term as un secretary-general, reflecting on a series of failures in the 1990s: rwanda, kosovo, east timor, etc. Two senses of intervention: negative: intervention as a pretext (usa in vietnam, soviet union in. Hungary and czechoslovakia) enforcement: but civil wars seem to fall outside its remit (un charter 2(7), the distinction between international peace and security and, positive: intervention as conflict prevention and human rights. The un security council is authorized to take action on (cid:498)threats to international peace and security(cid:499)
