Deployment of Troops to Prevent Impending Genocide: A Contemporary Assessment of the un Security Council's Powers

Canadian Yearbook of International Law

Volumn 40, Issue , 2002, Pages 195-249

  Toufayan, Mark ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1017/S0069005800008031     Document Type: Review

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