Abstract
Speaking before the 191-member United Nations in 2005, then-British Prime Minister Tony Blair said that "For the first time . we are agreed that states do not have the right to do what they will within their own borders but that we in the name of humanity have a common duty to protect people where their own governments will not." This notion, that of responsible sovereignty , says that nation states forfeit the right to uninterrupted internal freedoms when they no longer uphold the responsibilities associated with sovereignty.
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Graeber, Daniel J.
(2008)
"When Steel and Guns Meets Bread and Butter,"
Human Rights & Human Welfare: Vol. 8:
Iss.
7, Article 3.
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