1. The Decline of Sovereignty
While article 2.7 of the United Nations Charter prohibits unilateral or multilateral intervention in matters that are "essentially" within the domestic jurisdiction of states, in practice the UN Security Council has moved increasingly towards an interventionist versus statist interpretation of international law during the past decade. Whether through the organizational structure of the United Nations, NATO, or other supranational institutions, the new norm of acceptable intervention stresses the use of multilateral or collective intervention in response to the demands of a collective security...
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