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Pascal Herren

Doctoral candidate of law at
the University of Geneva.

6 articles

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A “humanitarian intervention” in Syria – 150 years ago

by Pascal Herren

Geneva (Switzerland) | 13 December 2012

A humanitarian intervention in Syria? Humanitarian grounds had already been used in 1860 ... precisely by France as a pretext to intervene militarily in Syria, then an Ottoman province. In this article, Geneva University scholar Pascal Herren lays bare the true intentions of France under (...)