The Security Council and the use of force : theory and reality--a need for change? / Niels Blokker & Nico Schrijver, editors ; with a foreword by Pieter Kooijmans.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schrijver, Nico, 1954- editor.

Kooijmans, P. H., 1933-2013, writer of foreword.

Blokker, Niels, editor.

E.M. Meijers Instituut.

Series:

Legal Aspects of International Organizations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United Nations. Security Council.

United Nations.

Intervention (International law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, [2005]

Summary:

This book addresses the authority of the UN Security Council to regulate the use of force. In particular, it examines the question of whether the present composition, functions, and powers of the Security Council are adequate to meet recent demands, such as the need perceived by states to use force in cases of humanitarian emergency and pre-emptive action in response to international terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

1 The Security Council and the Use of Force - On Recent Practice

2 Challenges to the Prohibition to Use Force: Does the Straitjacket of Article 2(4) UN Charter Begin to Gall too Much?

3 The United Nations Security Council and the Authorization of Force: Renewing the Council Through Law Reform

4 The Security Council and the Use of Force: Kosovo, East Timor and Iraq

5 Towards New Circumstances in Which the Use of Force May be Authorized?

6 The Use of Force in Peacekeeping Operations

7 The Security Council and Self-Defence: Which Way to Global Security?

8 Attribution of Forcible Acts to States: Connections Between the Law on the Use of Force and the Law of State Responsibility

9 The United States and the Security Council

10 NATO, Its Member States and the Security Council

11 The Peace and Security Council of the African Union, the Use of Force and the United Nations Security Council: The Case of the Sudan

12 Towards a Second Enlargement of the Security Council? A Comparative Perspective

13 Reforming the Security Council: Views from Practice

14 Reforming the Security Council: Is There a Hidden Agenda?

Appendix I: Extracts from A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility (Report of the High-level Panel)

Apendix II: Extracts from In Larger Freedom: Towards Development, Security and Human Rights for All (Report of the Secretary-General)

Index

LEGAL ASPECTS OF INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

90-474-1605-8

OCLC:

1289372783