A Duty to Prevent Genocide: Due Diligence Obligations among the P5
- ISBN-10
- 1788117719
- ISBN-13
- 9781788117715
- Category
- Law
- Pages
- 264
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018-09-28
- Publisher
- Edward Elgar Publishing
- Author
- John Heieck
Description
This perceptive book analyzes the scope of the duty to prevent genocide of China, France, Russia, the UK, and the US in light of the due diligence standard under conventional, customary, and peremptory international law. It expounds the positive obligations of these five states to act both within and without the Security Council context to prevent or suppress an imminent or ongoing genocide.
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