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One of the most striking paradoxes of the twentieth century, and particularly of the postwar world, is that the tremendous explosion in human rights awareness and law described by Louis Henkin and Kenneth Roth in chapters 1 and 10 has been coupled with an even more pronounced expansion of deadly conflict. Even as more citizens around the world enjoy economic, social, civil, and political rights, this greater freedom is increasingly vulnerable to recent trends in warfare.
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See, for example, Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998).
While democratic states have been involved in conflicts—such as the 1998–1999 American and British strikes against Iraq and Yugoslavia—no dispute or crisis between states has ever escalated into an international war unless at least one of the states involved was not democratic. The foundation article of “the democratic peace” argument is Michael Doyle, “Kant, Liberal Legacies, and Foreign Affairs,” Parts 1 and 2, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol. 12, No. 3 and No. 4 (Summer and Fall 1983), pp. 205–54
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Hamburg, D. (2000). Human Rights and Warfare: An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure. In: Power, S., Allison, G. (eds) Realizing Human Rights. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-03608-7_15
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