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 pr...

Table of Contents:

• 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.