The UN Security Council and the Politics of International Authority

✍ Scribed by Bruce Cronin and Ian Hurd

Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 260
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Observes how the growth of the political authority of the Council challenges the basic idea that states have legal autonomy over their domestic affairs. The individual essays survey the implications that flow from these developments in the crucial policy areas of: terrorism; economic sanctions; the prosecution of war crimes; human rights; humanitarian intervention; and the use of force. In each of these areas, the evidence shows a complex and fluid relation between state sovereignty, the power of the United Nations, and the politics of international legitimation. Demonstrating how world politics has come to accommodate the contradictory institutions of international authority and international anarchy, this book makes an important contribution to how we understand and study international organizations and international law. Written by leading experts in the field, this volume will be of strong interest to students and scholars of international relations, international organizations, international law and global governance.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Illustrations......Page 8
Contributors......Page 9
Part I: Concepts......Page 12
1 Introduction......Page 14
2 Theories and tests of international authority......Page 34
Part II: Sources of Council authority......Page 52
3 Delegation and the nature of Security Council authority......Page 54
4 International consensus and the changing legal authority of the UN Security Council......Page 68
5 The Security Council as legislature......Page 91
6 The challenges and perils of normative overstretch......Page 116
Part III: The exercise of Council authority......Page 140
7 Creating authority by the Council: The international criminal tribunals......Page 142
8 NGOs and the Security Council: Authority all around but for whose benefit?......Page 165
9 The Uniting for Peace resolution and other ways of circumventing the authority of the Security Council......Page 184
Part IV: Conclusion......Page 208
10 Conclusion: Assessing the Council’s authority......Page 210
References and interviews......Page 226
Index......Page 252

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