Bulletin n. 1/2008
May 2008
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Matthews Max W.
    Tracking the emergence of a new international norm: the responsibility to protect and the crisis in Darfur
    in Boston College International and Comparative Law Review , vol. 31, issue 1 ,  2008 ,  137-152
    Since 2005 both the U.N. General Assembly and the Security Council have expressed for the first time a clear acceptance of the existence of a responsability to protect populations from genocide, war crime, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity. Though scholars have since debated the legal status of this responsability, commonly referred to as R2P, it is most accurately described as a declaratory principle rather than a binding rule of international law. Still, recent resolutions by the Security Council, particularly those in reaction to the ongoing atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, explicitly invoke R2P while calling for protective actions in accordance with the principle. If the Security continues to implement R2P, the principle may cristallize into a binding norm of international law in the foreseeable future
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