A Duty to Prevent

2004/01/01 by Lee Feinstein, Anne-Marie Slaughter · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Business #Duty #Economics #Global Peace and Security Dynamics #International Law and Human Rights #Law #Law and economics #Political science

paper · doi:10.2307/20033835

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Abstract

The unprecedented threat posed by terrorists and rogue states armed with weapons of mass destruction cannot be handled by an outdated and poorly enforced nonproliferation regime. The international community has a duty to prevent security disasters as well as humanitarian ones -- even at the price of violating sovereignty

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