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The United Nations and the question of Palestine : rule by law and the structure of international legal subalternity / Ardi Imseis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Imseis, Ardi, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United Nations--Palestine.
- United Nations.
- Palestinian Arabs--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Palestinian Arabs.
- Rule of law.
- Palestine--International status.
- Palestine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxii, 277 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New york, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- Contrary to conventional wisdom, there has been a continuing though vacillating gulf between the requirements of international law and the UN on the question of Palestine. This book explores the UN's management of the longest-running problem on its agenda, critically assessing tensions between the organization's position and international law. What forms has the UN's failure to respect international law taken, and with what implications? The author critically interrogates the received wisdom regarding the UN's fealty to the international rule of law, in favour of what is described as an international rule by law. This book demonstrates that through the actions of the UN, Palestine and its people have been committed to a state of what the author calls 'international legal subalternity', according to which the promise of justice through international law is repeatedly proffered under a cloak of political legitimacy furnished by the international community, but its realization is interminably withheld.
- Contents:
- The interwar period
- 1947 : The United Nations plan of partition for Palestine
- 1948 and after : the United Nations and the Palestinian refugees
- 1967 and after : the United Nations and the occupied Palestinian territory
- 2011 and after : membership of Palestine in the United Nations
- Conclusion : Palestine's international legal subalternity as a long-range condition.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Nov 2023).
- ISBN:
- 9781316513897
- 1009084682
- 9781009084680
- 9781009076272
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