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Email this citationCIAO DATE: 03/03
Redefining Sovereignty . The Use of Force After the End of the Cold War. New Options, Lawful and Legitimate?
November 2000
Abstract
The conference was organised by the Institute for International Affairs (IAI) with the support of the Centre for High Defence Studies (CASD), the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the NATO Office for Information and Press and the Thyssen Foundation. It was held in Rome, at the Centre for High Defence Studies, on 24 and 25 November 2000.
Many scholars from all over the world were invited to discuss the manifold questions rising from the various instances of use of force which have occurred after the end of the cold war. The main arguments under discussion were the implications of the use of force after 1990 on the classical concept of State sovereignty. This topic was analysed both from the political and the legal points of view.
The first day was devoted to examination of the political issues, while the legal questions were dealt with on the second day. Each day the proceedings were divided into four sessions: (First day) Intervention in the Post-Cold War Era; The Moral Imperative for Intervention in Case of Genocide and Other Humanitarian Emergencies; International Missions in Kosovo: from Military Intervention to Institution-Building; The Role of Regional Organizations in Maintaining Peace and Security; (Second day) The Current Status of the Principle Prohibiting the Use of Force in International Relations and the Legal Grounds for Intervention by Individual states or Group of states; NATO’s New Strategic Concept and Non-Art. 5 Operations; Constitutional Constraints in the Use of Force by states; Post-Conflict Peace-Building.
