Solidarity: A Structural Principle of International Law

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wolfrum, Rüdiger (Editor), Kojima, Chie (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Series: Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht, Veröffentlichungen des Max-Planck-Instituts für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht, 213
• Subjects: Law.; Law > Philosophy.; Public international law.; Public International Law.; Fundamentals of Law.

 This volume presents a high-level scholarly discussion on whether the concept of solidarity functions as a structural principle of international law and to what extent it has become a full-fledged legal principle. Each contributor addresses these questions by examining normative operations of the principle of solidarity in different branches of international law – including international disaster law, international humanitarian law, the law of development cooperation and international environmental law – as well as the relationship between the principle of solidarity and other legal principles such as the responsibility to protect and intergenerational equity. 

 Opening Address -- Revisiting Solidarity as a (Re-)Emerging Constitutional Principle: Some Further Reflections -- Solidarity and the Law of Development Cooperation -- Responsibility to Protect: Reflecting Solidarity? -- Intergenerational Equity -- Military Intervention without Security Council#x2019;s Authorisation as a Consequence of the #x201C;Responsibility to Protect#x201D; -- Common Security: The Litmus Test of International Solidarity -- Concluding Remarks.