Will War and the Use of Force Become Obsolete in International Politics in the Twenty-First Century?

1996 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-42
Author(s):  
SYED ANWAR HUSAIN ◽  
BORIS PASTERNAK ◽  
DANIEL WEBSTER
Keyword(s):  
International Politics ◽  
Use Of Force ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century

14. The politics of international law

2021 ◽  
pp. 316-327
Author(s):  
Nicole Scicluna
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
International Politics ◽  
International Order ◽  
First Century ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Material Power

This chapter draws together the key themes of this book, using contemporary debates over the nature and future of international order, and explores likely sources of continuity and change in the politics of international law. It begins by expanding on the concept of international order and, more specifically, the so-called liberal international order that has framed international politics in the postwar period. The chapter asks whether and why the liberal international order is in crisis and how it is likely to evolve. It then turns to the rise of non-Western powers, a phenomenon that many observers have argued is contributing to the crisis of the current order. The focus is on what the changing balance of material power may reveal about the present and future of international law. Finally, the chapter offers some tentative conclusions about the politics of international law two decades into the twenty-first century.

UN General Assembly Dialogues on the Responsibility to Protect and the Use of Force for Humanitarian Purposes

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-332
Author(s):  
Pınar Gözen Ercan
Keyword(s):  
Humanitarian Intervention ◽  
Use Of Force ◽  
First Century ◽  
Responsibility To Protect ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Member States ◽  
The Future ◽  
Un General Assembly ◽  
Twenty First Century

Bringing into focus the two formal debates on the Responsibility to Protect that took place in 2009 and 2018, this article identifies the approaches of member states towards the humanitarian use of force by locating it in the UN’s deliberations on R2P. To this end, the article compares and contrasts country statements in order to trace states’ general approach towards humanitarian intervention on the basis of their reflections on R2P. Following from this, the article examines whether or not states’ approaches to humanitarian intervention have been transforming in the twenty-first century, and evaluates how the humanitarian use of force is perceived in relation to the R2P framework that was embraced by the member states of the UN General Assembly in 2005, and how this affects the future of R2P.

scholarly journals The judgment of war: on the idea of legitimate force in world politics

2005 ◽  
Vol 31 (S1) ◽  
pp. 143-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
NICHOLAS RENGGER
Keyword(s):  
International Politics ◽  
World Politics ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century

The twenty first century has opened, as so many centuries before it, with the drum roll of war depressingly audible. The optimism of the early 1990s that world politics was being remade, and that the threat of serious conflict was receding, vanished along with the twin towers that were so much a symbol of that world, one heart-breakingly beautiful September morning in 2001. And with the return of force and war to the forefront of international politics, so come the inevitable questions; when, under what circumstances, in what manner and with what restraint, may we (whoever the we might be) use force to secure our interests, protect our families, defend our communities or our values?

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Richard Beardsworth ◽  
Garrett Wallace Brown ◽  
Richard Shapcott
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Politics ◽  
International Community ◽  
First Century ◽  
Responsibility To Protect ◽  
Mass Atrocity ◽  
International Responsibility ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Atrocity Crimes ◽  
Political Vocabulary

The twenty-first century saw the emergence of a new doctrine of state and international responsibility in the form of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). This doctrine transforms, in principle, the moral and political vocabulary of international politics from one of traditional definitions of state and human rights to a broadened normative understanding of domestic and global responsibilities. The doctrine stipulates that states individually and collectively have responsibilities to protect their citizens and those of other states from mass atrocity crimes. In using this language the international community has formalized the idea that states, in addition to their rights, have responsibilities that are essentially cosmopolitan in that they are owed to people everywhere....

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