A principled approach to state failure : international community actions in emergency situations /

This book is the first legal study of state failure in international law. Dr. Giorgetti specifically analyses health, environmental and human rights emergencies and suggests concrete instruments for international actors facing emergencies in failing states. Her Principles for Action are an important...

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Main Author: Giorgetti, Chiara
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Series:Developments in international law ; v. 64.
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Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • An emerging problem in international law
  • The international community has acted on behalf of states in the past
  • The failed state par excellence : the role of the international community in Somalia demonstrates the inadequacy of the system to deal with state failure
  • What is state failure? The inadequacy of existing legal techniques to deal with failed states
  • Responding to public health emergencies in failed states
  • Environmental emergencies in failed states
  • United Nations actions and the use of military force to provide assistance to domestic populations in failed states.