Tag: sovereignty
The Paris Agreement, World Citizenship and National Sovereignty
Nicholas Chan’s contribution to the current issue of Ethics and International Affairs makes the observation that the Paris Agreement on climate change focuses on a “‘bottom-up’ structure, emphasizing national flexibility in order to ensure broader participation”–with the hopes that this nod in favor of national sovereignty will make it easier for governments to set and […]
Libya and Responsibility to Protect: Great-Power Permission or International Obligation?
The military attack on Libya in 2011 has rightly been interpreted as a significant milestone in the life of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine. It is the first UN military mission explicitly justified as a reaction to a government’s failure to live up its responsibility to protect its citizens. R2P activists have celebrated that it […]
