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World War II and its aftermath demonstrated the futility of planning military defense in terms of an individual country. The Western World needed a new approach to preserve its security. In March 1946 Winston Churchill in a speech at Fulton, Missouri, made a proposal for a defensive alliance to protect the West in the cold war.1
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See H. Lauterpacht, International Law and Human Rights, 276, 394–428 (1950) for a detailed analysis of the rejection of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a legal instrument and where he expresses the view that the Declaration does not possess, and does not purport to possess, legal force or authority and that its moral significance is controversial.
See McDougal, “International Law, Power and Policy: A Contemporary Conception,“ Recueil des Cours (1953), Vol. 1. 140 which identifies the need for a policy-oriented approach to the study of international law.
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Ellert, R.B. (1963). Introduction. In: NATO ‘Fair Trial’ Safeguards: Precursor to an International Bill of Procedural Rights. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6079-9_1
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