Foreign Policy Research Institute A Nation Must Think Before it Acts Sovereignty as Responsibility

Sovereignty as Responsibility

Abstract

This article examines the development of a new normative principle of international order, sovereignty as responsibility; its communitarian implications; and the ways in which the newly conceived responsibility of the “international community” to protect the people of states failing to live up to their responsibilities as defined by international norms can come to terms with the notion of democratic self-government.

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