United Nations reform and the new collective security / [edited by] Peter G. Danchin and Horst Fischer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Danchin, Peter G., editor.

Fischer, Horst, 1950- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Nations--Reform.

United Nations.

Security, International--International cooperation.

Security, International.

International relations.

International cooperation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 431 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Other Title:

United Nations Reform & the New Collective Security

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

System Details:

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PDF

Summary:

In 2004, the Report of the Secretary-General's High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change emphasised the linkages between economic development, security and human rights, and the imperative in the twenty-first century of collective action and cooperation between States. In a world deeply divided by differences of power, wealth, culture and ideology, central questions today in international law and organisation are whether reaffirmation of the concept of collective security and a workable consensus on the means of its realisation are possible. In addressing these questions, this book considers the three key documents in the recent UN reform process: the High-Level Panel report, the Secretary-General's In Larger Freedom report and the 2005 World Summit Outcome document. The chapters examine the responsibilities, commitments, strategies and institutions necessary for collective security to function both in practice and as a normative ideal in international law and relations between state and non-state actors alike.

Contents:

Things fall apart : the concept of collective security in international law / Peter G. Danchin

Reflections on the politics of institutional reform / Jan Klabbers

Great Powers then and now : Security Council reform and responses to threats to peace and security / Lauri Mälksoo

Assessing the High-Level Panel Report : rethinking the causes and consequences of threats to collective security / Maxwell O. Chibundu

Collective security and the responsibility to protect / George Andreopoulos

Responses to nonmilitary threats : environment, disease, and technology / Joachim Wolf

On the far side of conflict : the UN Peacebuilding Commission as optical illusion / Dirk Salomons

The new peacebuilding architecture : an institutional innovation of the United Nations / Ejeviome Eloho Otobo

The World Summit process and UN sanctions reform : between rhetoric and force / Jeremy Farrall

The UN response to the evolving threat of global terrorism : institutional reform, rivalry, or renewal? / Eric Rosand

International justice and collective security : between pragmatism and principle / Carmen Máquez Carrasco

Developing security in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo : MONUC as a practical example of (failing) collective security / Dennis Dijkzeul

Indirect power : a critical look at civil society in the new Human Rights Council / Elizabeth Salmón

Collective security : a village-eye view / J. Paul Martin and Benedicto Q. Sánchez.

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ISBN:

9780511675966

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