Humanitarian Occupation

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Cambridge University Press, 2008 M02 21
This book analyzes a new phenomenon in international law: international organizations assuming the powers of a national government in order to reform political institutions. After reviewing the history of internationalized 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 international law to maintain existing states and their populations. The only way this could occur in these territories, which had all seen violent internal conflict, was for international 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 international community.

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Contents

Section 1
18
Section 2
41
Section 3
45
Section 4
68
Section 5
72
Section 6
74
Section 7
82
Section 8
84
Section 12
142
Section 13
162
Section 14
177
Section 15
201
Section 16
218
Section 17
222
Section 18
244
Section 19
255

Section 9
110
Section 10
115
Section 11
118
Section 20
273
Section 21
303

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About the author (2008)

Gregory H. Fox is Associate Professor of Law (tenured) at Wayne State University Law School, where he is the Inaugural Cohn Family Scholar in Legal History.

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