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Eyewitness to a Genocide. By Michael Barnett. Ithaca, London: Cornell University Press, 2002. Pp. xiii, 208. Index. $25.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Stephen J. Toope
Stephen J. Toope*
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McGill University
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 97 , Issue 2 , April 2003 , pp. 459 - 463
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2003

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2 For a full description of constructivist approaches to international relations and their place in the academy, see Katzenstein, Peter J., Keohane, Robert O., & Krasner, Stephen D., International Organization and the Study of World Politics, 52 Int’l Org. 645, 674–78 (1998)Google Scholar; John, Gerard Ruggie, What Makes the World Hang Together? Neo-utilitarianism and the Social Constructivist Challenge, 52 Int’l Org. 855 (1998)Google Scholar; and Jutta, Brunnée & Toope, Stephen J., International Law and Constructivism: Elements of an Interactional Theory of International Law, 39 Colum.J. Transnat’l L. 19, 25–37 (2000)Google Scholar.

3 See, e.g., Wendt, Alexander, The Agent-Structure Problem in International Relations Theory, 41 Int’l Org. 335 (1987)CrossRefGoogle Scholar Checkel, Jeffrey T., The Constructivist Turn in International Relations Theory, 50 World Pol. 324, 325–26, 342 (1998)Google Scholar.

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5 Dec. 9, 1948, 78 UNTS 277 (emphasis added).

6 UN Charter Art. 55 (c). See also Article 1(3), which includes “promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms” among the primary objects of the organization.

7 Barcelona Traction, Light and Power Co. (Belg. v. Spain), Second Phase, 1970 ICJ Rep. 3, para. 33 (Feb. 5).

8 For a more complete version of this argument, see Toope, Stephen J., Does International Law Impose a Duty upon the United Nations to Prevent Genocide? 46 MCGILL L.J. 187 (2000)Google Scholar.