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Collective security
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Orakhelashvili, Alexander, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Security, International--International cooperation.
- Security, International.
- International relations.
- National security.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Collective security is a concept often mentioned but not always well understood. This book provides an overview of the whole collective security system, encompassing the UN and regional organisations. It takes a bottom-up approach to analysing these institutions, their competencies and interactions, focusing on the relevant practice.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Essence and definition of collective security
- Collective security institutions
- The regime of competence allocation
- The identification of a threat
- Responses to threats
- Self-defence and collective security
- Peace operations
- Legal consequences of illegal collective security acts and decisions
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 11, 2011).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-172530-7
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