Resisting United Nations Security Council resolutions / Sufyan Droubi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Droubi, Sufyan, author.

Series:

Routledge research in international law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Nations. Security Council--Resolutions.

United Nations. Security Council.

United Nations. Charter.

United Nations.

Charter (United Nations).

Genre:

Resolutions (Law)

Resolutions (Laws)

Physical Description:

xx, 251 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2014.

Summary:

"The United Nations Security Council has primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security. In discharging its powers it must act in accordance with the Purposes and Principles of the UN, and observe the rules governing voting and procedure established in the Organisations Charter. The Council adopts mandatory resolutions that establish obligations for members and non-members. Such obligations trump conflicting obligations originating from treaties and Member States must cooperate with the Organisation and among themselves, in the implementation of any action prescribed by the Council against States whose behaviour the Council considers an act of aggression, or a threat to, or breach of, international peace and security. Since the adoption of the Charter, observers have tried to grasp the scope and extent of the Councils powers, and whether States have any right to oppose its mandatory resolutions, especially those they find to be unlawful, i.e. contrary to the Charter.This book analyses resistance to Security Council resolutions and puts forward a theory of lawful resistance. Sufyan El Droubi takes a positivist approach to the UN Charter regarding it as a constitution, with the meaning of Charter provisions considered to be the product of an on-going dialogue between international lawyers, UN staff, government lawyers, diplomats and scholars. Special emphasis is placed on the construction of the Charters meaning through the practice of both organs and Members of the UN. The book explores a number of case studies of individual and collective State resistance to mandatory Council resolutions, expressly justified by the alleged unlawfulness of the opposed resolution. The book develops the concept of lawful resistance including the cues of unlawfulness upon which the resisting State can rely so as to assess the lawfulness and legitimacy of its arguments, the role played by the different actors present in the different contexts of resistance, as well as the contours of behaviour that may qualify as lawful resistance"-- Provided by publisher.

"The United Nations Security Council has primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security. In discharging its powers it must act in accordance with the Purposes and Principles of the UN, and observe the rules governing voting and procedure established in the Organisations Charter. The Council adopts mandatory resolutions that establish obligations for members and non-members. Such obligations trump conflicting obligations originating from treaties and Member States must cooperate with the Organisation and among themselves, in the implementation of any action prescribed by the Council against States whose behaviour the Council considers an act of aggression, or a threat to, or breach of, international peace and security. This book analyses resistance to Security Council resolutions and puts forward a theory of lawful resistance. Sufyan El Droubi takes a positivist approach to the UN Charter regarding it as a constitution, with the meaning of Charter provisions considered to be the product of an on-going dialogue between international lawyers, UN staff, government lawyers, diplomats and scholars. Special emphasis is placed on the construction of the Charter's meaning through the practice of both organs and Members of the UN. The book proposes that nonviolent resistance to a mandatory resolution of the SC, on grounds that the latter is incompatible with the Charter or jus cogens norms, may be considered lawful under the Charter if some elements are present"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The powers of the United Nations Security Council and resistance to its resolutions

UN Charter as a constitution and the notion of constitutional resistance

South African resistance to the demands that it abandon apartheid and withdraw from Namibia

Iraq's resistance to economic sanctions, with focus on its opposition to the implementation of humanitarian exemptions

Bosnia and Herzegovina's noncompliance with he arms embargo

Libya's noncompliance with determinations for the surrender of suspects and payment of compensation

Iran's noncompliance with demands that it suspend nuclear activities and comply with the Protocol Additional to the Safeguards Agreement

Targeted sanctions on individuals suspected of terrorism

Critique of the prevalent theories

Resisting UNSC resolutions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-243) and index.

ISBN:

9780415710435

041571043X

OCLC:

854611093