Slouching Towards New ‘Just’ Wars: The Hegemon after September 11th

International Relations

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 405-423

  Brunnée, Jutta ^a   Toope, Stephen J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

collective security; evil; humanitarian intervention; international law; just war; responsibility to protect; self defence; use of force

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248061491     PISSN: 00471178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0047117804048481     Document Type: Article

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