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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]

International Community

Andreas Paulus

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Encyclopedia entries
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Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law [MPIL]

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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law [MPEPIL]
Article last updated:
March 2013

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 08 October 2024

Subject(s):
Sources, foundations and principles of international law — Foreign relations law — International co-operation

Published under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law under the direction of Professor Anne Peters (2021–) and Professor Rüdiger Wolfrum (2004–2020). 

1 In the age of globalization, the ‘international community’ appears omnipresent: it acts and intervenes, as in the case of Kosovo (Klein), it helps the victims of natural disasters (see also Duty to Protect in Cases of Natural Disasters), is called upon to redouble its efforts to prevent and suppress terrorist acts, as after the attacks against the United States on 11 September 2001 (see also Terrorism), or seems helpless and inactive in spite of the best of its intentions, as in Darfur (Paulus [2008]; see also Sudan). Resolutions of international organizations...
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