Fiduciaries of Humanity

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Fiduciaries of Humanity is written by Evan J. Criddle and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0199397945 (ISBN 10) and 9780199397945 (ISBN 13).

Over the past century, a new model of international law has developed under which a state's sovereign authority arises from the state's responsibility to respect, protect, and fulfill human rights for its people. In this book, Evan J. Criddle and Evan Fox-Decent argue that these developments mark a turning point in the international community's conception of public authority. Under international law today, states serve as fiduciaries of humanity, and their authority to govern and represent their people is dependent on their satisfaction of numerous duties, the most general of which is to estab.