Robert C. Johansen, in Principled World Politics: The Challenge of Normative International Relations, ed. Paul Wapner and Lester Edwin J. Ruiz (Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000)

Because all people at this stage of human history now live within permeable territorial boundaries, human security can no longer be achieved without ensuring that people everywhere obey at least a few fundamental rules prohibiting severely threatening actions, whether of a military, migratory, environmental or despotic nature. Peace and security can be substantially enhanced only by taking steps to domesticate the international system. One significant measure would be to increase the international community’s capacity to hold individuals, including government officials, accountable to fundamental international norms of peace and human rights and, in particular, to strengthen United Nations capabilities for employing legal instruments of individualized enforcement, including highly trained UN civilian police and police trainers, conflict experts, internationally sponsored or monitored judicial proceedings, and “smart” economic sanctions.

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