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The United Nations and a new world order for a new millenium

by Edward McWhinney

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"The author, currently President of the Institut de Droit International and a jurisconsult and advisor, over the years, to international and national governmental authorities, examines consequences and challenges for International Law and Law-making, as we enter the new millennium. Taking note of the antinomies and contradictions inherent in Classical International Law Categories like Territorial Integrity and Self-determination of Peoples, the Non-Use-of Force and Collective (regional) Self-Defence, the author considers, in particular, the direct conflict, in the case of both Bosnia and Kosovo, between the United Nations Charter principle of Non-Intervention and the claimed 'New' International Law principle of Humanitarian Intervention. The legally permissible modalities and structures and processes for exercise of Humanitarian Intervention, in accord with the United Nations Charter and also general International Law, are canvassed and weighed."--Jacket.

International relationsSelf-determination, NationalState successionUnited Nations