Intervention and state sovereignty: Breaking new ground

Global Governance

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 119-125

  Evans, Gareth ^a   Sahnoun, Mohamed ^a  

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EID: 0035534241     PISSN: 10752846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/19426720-00702002     Document Type: Review

References (13)

1. Kofi A. Annan, "Secretary-General's Speech to the 54th Session of the General Assembly," 20 September 1999, SG/SM/7136 GA/9596.
2. Ibid. See also "Secretary-General's Report to the 54th Session of the UN General Assembly" (A/54/1), where he said: "Nothing in the UN Charter precludes a recognition that there are rights beyond borders. What the Charter does say is that 'armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest.'" He then went on to pose the central questions: What is the common interest? Who defines it? Who will defend it? Under whose authority? And with what means of intervention?
3. Ibid. See also "Secretary-General's Report to the 54th Session of the UN General Assembly" (A/54/1), where he said: "Nothing in the UN Charter precludes a recognition that there are rights beyond borders. What the Charter does say is that 'armed force shall not be used, save in the common interest.'" He then went on to pose the central questions: What is the common interest? Who defines it? Who will defend it? Under whose authority? And with what means of intervention?
4. Foreign Secretary Robin Cook referred to the six central principles contained in this paper in a speech to the American Bar Association, London, 19 July 2000, available online at www.fco.gov.uk/news/speechtext.asp?3989. He made a further reference to these points in an article coauthored by Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman Menzies Campbell in the Financial Times, 4 September 2000, available online at http://www.fco.gov.uk/news/newstext. asp?4108.
5. Danish Institute of International Affairs (DUPI), Humanitarian Intervention: Legal and Political Aspects (Copenhagen: DUPI, 1999).
6. Humanitarian Intervention, Advisory Report No. 13, prepared by the Advisory Council on International Affairs and the Advisory Committee on Issues of Public International Law, as requested by the government of the Netherlands, AIV/CAVV, The Hague, April 2000.
7. Independent International Commission on Kosovo, Kosovo Report: Conflict - International Response - Lessons Learned (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).
8. For more details about the commission, updated as its work proceeds, see its website at http://www.iciss-ciise.gc.ca/.
9. The other members of the commission are Lee Hamilton, former U.S. member of Congress and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Gisèle Côté-Harper, Toronto law professor and human rights campaigner; Michael Ignatieff, Canadian author and philosopher; Vladimir Lukin, member of the Russian Duma and former chair of the Duma's International Affairs Committee; Klaus Naumann of Germany, former chairman of the NATO Military Committee; Cyril Ramaphosa, former secretary-general of South Africa's African National Congress; Fidel Ramos, former president of the Philippines; Cornelio Sommaruga, former president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and currently president of the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining; Eduardo Stein, former foreign minister of Guatemala; and Ramesh Thakur of India, vice-rector of the UN University, Tokyo.
10. Carnegie Corporation, Hewlett Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and Simons Foundation.
11. World Commission on Environment and Development (Brundtland Commission), Our Common Future (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987).
12. Professor Thomas G. Weiss, Graduate Center, City University of New York; Stanlake Samkange of Zimbabwe, former speechwriter for UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
13. Literally, "right to interfere." With a pedigree going back to France's colonization of Algeria, the terminology was particularly associated with Bernard Kouchner, founder of MSF and the activist minister for humanitarian action in the government of the late president François Mitterand. The term remains popular with French NGOs.