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10 Temp. Int'l & Comp. L.J. 1 (1996)
Failed States, Self-Determination, and Preventive Diplomacy: Colonialist Nostalgia and Democratic Expectations

handle is hein.journals/tclj10 and id is 7 raw text is: FAILED STATES, SELF-DETERMINATION, AND PREVENTIVE DIPLOMACY: COLONIALIST NOSTALGIA AND DEMOCRATIC EXPECTATIONS Henry J. Richardson, lilt This article is dedicated to Haywood Burns - Brother without End, Law Warrior for Global Justice, Builder, Scholar, Generous and Moving Human Spirit. One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures with- out making a mistake. -Anton Chekhov TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction ................................................... 2 II. The Context of Labelling a State Failed ..................... 12 A. The Delgado Dilemma ..................................... 12 B. The Normative Ambiguities of Failure ................... 13 C. Issues of Content for a Claim of Failure ................. 16 D. International Liability for State Failure .................. 20 E. Further Clarification of the Facts ........................... 22 F. Conservatism, Failure, and Superpowers .................. 23 G . Television .................................................. 28 H. Re-Colonization as the Alleged Solution: The Pfaff Proposal ................................................... 29 I. Failure and Global Resources ............................. 31 J. Summary of Context ........................................ 33 III. Further Legal Deficiencies ..................................... 33 A. Initial Constitutive Implications ............................ 33 B. Sovereignty, Failure, and Sovereign Equality of States .... 36 C. The Right of Self-Determination of Peoples ................. 41 IV. Projection of Present Legal Trends into the Near Future ........ 49 V. Recommended Policy Directions ............................... 56 A. Preventive Diplomacy ...................................... 58 t Professor of Law, Temple University School of Law. Much appreciation is owed to my colleagues Amelia Boss, Jeffrey Dunoff, Samuel Gyandoh and John Lindsey, and to Makau wa Mutua for reading earlier drafts of this article and contributing critical insights. Excellent re- search assistance was provided by Ingrid Dahlberg (J.D. Temple 1995), Seth Addo-Yobo (J.D. Temple 1995), Naomi Lefkowitz (J.D. Temple 1995), and especially so by Mary Ann Jones (J.D. Temple expected 1996), and Matthew Corcoran (J.D. Temple expected 1996). Tracey Brown provided invaluable administrative assistance. With all of them, plus the Journal Staff, is shared the worth of this article. Errors and shortcomings are mine alone.

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