Towards Global Justice: Sovereignty in an Interdependent World
With Forewords by Geoffrey Robertson QC, Doughty Street Chambers, London, UK and Professor Mihail E. Ionescu, Bucharest, Romania Simona Ţuţuianu describes a new model of sovereignty which is fast replacing the traditional Westphalian model embodied i
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Simona T ß utßuianu
Towards Global Justice: Sovereignty in an Interdependent World
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Simona T ß utßuianu Institute for Political Studies of Defence and Military History Defence Studies Directorate Bucharest Romania
ISBN 978-90-6704-890-3 DOI 10.1007/978-90-6704-891-0
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2012947852 T.M.C. ASSER
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The Hague, The Netherlands, and the author 2013
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The time of absolute sovereignty … has passed; its theory was never matched by reality. Boutros Boutros-Ghali An Agenda for Peace (New York: United Nations, 1992), para 17
The diplomacy generated by the Arab Spring replaces Westphalian principles of equilibrium with a generalized doctrine of humanitarian intervention. Henry Kissinger Syrian intervention risks upsetting global order Washington Post, 2 June 2012
Foreword
This is an important book, which comes at a crucial time in the realignment of international relations, as states of the world begin to make common cause against external threats like terrorism and climate change, while accepting their own vulnerability to international monitoring and even armed intervention to ensure that they treat their own peoples with a modicum of dignity. Students brought up to believe in the traditional principles of Westphalian sovereignty seemingly embodied in Article 2(4) of the UN Charter, now find it difficult to account for a world in which Miloševic´ and Mladic´ can be put on trial, where Charles Taylor goes to jail for many years, and where the UN and regional bodies encourage—by sanctions, indictments, and even armed intervention—a popular revolt against a long-lasting Libyan regime. This is not the world of independent nation-states, with political and military leaders bedecked with legal privileges and immunities. It is a world where ‘‘sovereignty’’—classically the power of national entities to treat their own people as rulers wish and freely to follow their own national interests—is no longer an accurate account of how the world works, let alone of how it will work in the very near future. This book offers a credible
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