Intervention: From Theories to Cases

Hehir, J. Bryan

doi:10.1111/j.1747-7093.1995.tb00168.x

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“…Small and vulnerable states might agree more readily to the sort of precommitment regime that Buchanan and Keohane (2011) proposed, if it were supplemented in the ways the Larreta Doctrine suggests. In a critique of Buchanan and Keohane, Hehir (2011) implied that only states that are unlikely to experience breakdown would commit. Most interesting in that sense are the stances adopted by Uruguay, Guatemala, and Cuba.…”

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The Promise of Precommitment in Democracy and Human Rights: The Hopeful, Forgotten Failure of the Larreta Doctrine

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Friedman²

2019

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Although international precommitment regimes offer a tool to escape the apparent contradiction between sovereignty and the international protection of democracy and human rights, they raise theoretical and practical questions. This article draws on multinational archival research to explore an overlooked historical episode and suggest new thinking regarding the logjams over sovereignty, incapacity of global decision making, and humanitarian imperialism. In 1945 and 1946, the American states engaged in a debate over the Larreta Doctrine, a Uruguayan proposal about the parallelism between democracy and human rights, and the regional rights and duties to safeguard these values. In the ensuing debate, the Uruguayan foreign minister elaborated a tripartite precommitment mechanism to create a web of national commitments to democratic governance and the domestic protection of human rights, to establish a regional insurance policy against failures to maintain those commitments, and to obligate the great power and neighboring states to precommit to working through the regional system instead of unilaterally. As a proposal that emerged from a weak state—and garnered support from states that faced internal and external threats to democracy and rights—the Larreta Doctrine offers insights on the central tension between state sovereignty and international commitments.

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The Promise of Precommitment in Democracy and Human Rights: The Hopeful, Forgotten Failure of the Larreta Doctrine

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Friedman²

2019

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“…Actual international law respects the sovereignty of states and has favored peace and stability over the forceful promotion of individual rights. 26 Although sovereignty is by no means absolute in international law, moving toward greater acceptance of its norms depends on substantial respect for sovereignty. The plain disregard for the sovereignty of states of whose governments we disapprove evident in Kantian and cosmopolitan approaches weakens such progress.…”

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