A principled approach to state failure : : international community actions in emergency situations / / by Chiara Giorgetti ; foreword by Michael Reisman and Lea Brilmayer.

• Author: Giorgetti, Chiara.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Developments in International Law 64.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This book is the first legal study of state failure in international law. Building on a comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon, Dr. Giorgetti provides a definition of state failure that informs her study of how international actors may operate in situations of emergencies occurring in failed and failing states. The book specifically focuses on actions taken in health, environmental and human rights emergencies to provide generally applicable conclusions. Indeed, the Principles for Action distilled in the final chapter will provide concrete instruments to the international community to act in emergency situations and will prove to be an important contribution to the development of international law.

Table of Contents

An emerging problem in international law -- The international community has acted on behalf of states in the past -- The failed state par excellence : the role of the international community in Somalia demonstrates the inadequacy of the system to deal with state failure -- What is state failure? The inadequacy of existing legal techniques to deal with failed states -- Responding to public health emergencies in failed states -- Environmental emergencies in failed states -- United Nations actions and the use of military force to provide assistance to domestic populations in failed states.