Can Might Make Right? The Use of Force to Impose Democracy and the Arthurian Dilemma in the Modern Era

Authors

Scott Thompson, University of Colorado Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Note

Publication

Law and Contemporary Problems

Year

2008

Citation Information

Scott Thompson, Can Might Make Right? The Use of Force to Impose Democracy and the Arthurian Dilemma in the Modern Era, 71 Law & Contemp. Probs. 163 (2008), available at https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/faculty-articles/477.

Abstract

This article explains that under international law nations are not permitted to use force to impose democracy on other nations and that such an approach is also impracticable and undesirable from a policy perspective.

Comments

"Copyright ©2008 by Scott Thompson."

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