Be sure to use our focused Research Guides for more specific listing of resources. Some specific ones that might be of interest include:
Remember to try some of these terms to help focus your search:
| "civil affairs" | "capacity building" |
| "civil military operations" | "Supremacy of the law" |
| "rule of law" | "culture of lawfulness" |
| "international regimes" | "humanitarian intervention" |
| "civil society" | "mass atrocities" |
| "legality of war" | "human security" |
| "jus ad bellum" | "human rights" |
According to the Oxford English Dictionary:
1. The authority and influence of law in society, esp. when viewed as a constraint on individual and institutional behaviour; (hence) the principle whereby all members of a society (including those in government) are considered equally subject to publicly disclosed legal codes and processes.
2. A valid legal proposition; a law.
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