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Popular Sovereignty versus State Sovereignty: Haiti, Popular Equality and the Birth of the Neocolonial State

Neocosmos, Michael. 2021. Popular Sovereignty versus State Sovereignty: Haiti, Popular Equality and the Birth of the Neocolonial State. Jour...

Michael Neocosmos Michael Neocosmos

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The modern practice of intervention by invitation and its implications for the prohibition of the use of force

The research examines how the criteria for permissible military intervention by invitation as developed in international law doctrine are currently implemented by States, as well as how this impacts the prohibition of the use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of States.

Erika de Wet Erika de Wet

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Global Human Rights Law and the Boundaries of Statehood

How does a transformation of the boundaries of statehood contribute to recovering the public and political nature of human rights law beyond the international legal order of territorial states?

Hans Lindahl Hans Lindahl
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