Non-Intervention
Questions
- 1. Is the prohibition of non-intervention a norm of customary international law?
- 2. Is the scope of the principle of non-intervention uncertain?
- 3. Does the prohibition of non-intervention apply to cyber-operations?
- 4. Is coercion a constituent element of prohibited intervention?
- 4.1 Is coercion limited to the employment of physical force?
- 4.2 Can dictatorial demands or acts of compulsion or imposition constitute coercion?
- 4.3 Does the deprivation of a State’s ability to control matters within its domaine réservé amount to coercion?
- 4.4 Does coercion extend to any affirmative acts designed to deprive another state of its freedom of choice with regard to a matter of protected sovereign prerogative?
- 4.5 Must there be a causal nexus between the responsible state’s actions/efforts and the effects on the target state’s internal or external affairs?
- 4.6 Can attempts to coerce an outcome amount to prohibited intervention?
- 4.7 Is intent a constituent element of coercion?
- 4.8 Must the action(s) constituting coercion be designed/intended to influence outcomes in, or conduct with respect to, a matter of protected sovereign prerogative?
- 4.9 Can coercion be indirect?
- 4.10 Must the target state have knowledge of the coercive cyber operation constituting the purported intervention?
- 5. Does intervention include forms of persuasion or propaganda?
- 6. Is there a de minimis exception to the prohibition?
- 7. Must the intervention be directed at matters over which the victim state is permitted by the principle of sovereignty, to decide freely?
- 7.1 Does the zone of protected sovereign prerogatives include only internal affairs?
- 7.2 Does the prohibition proscribe intervention in a state’s external (foreign) affairs?
- 7.3 Is the zone of protected sovereign prerogatives referred to as domaine réservé?
- 7.4 Is the domaine réservé limited to matters involving the state’s choice of a political, economic, social, and cultural system, and the formulation of foreign policy?
- 7.5 Does international law regulation over a matter of sovereign prerogative remove it from the domaine réservé?
- 7.6 Is critical infrastructure part of the domaine réservé?
- 7.7 Are elections part of the domaine réservé?
- 7.8 Is the operation of legislatures a part of the domaine réservé?
- Is financial system stability part of the domaine réservé?
- Are medical services part of the domaine réservé?
Visualizations
Non-Intervention and Democracy Index Score
Relationship democracy index score -> sovereignty responses.
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Comparison of how the EU responses compare to its member states
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Comparison of how the EU responses compare to non-member states
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