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Book The UN Security Council Members  Responsibility to Protect

Download or read book The UN Security Council Members Responsibility to Protect written by Andreas S. Kolb and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the hard legal core, if any, of the “Responsibility to Protect (R2P)” concept with regard to the commitment to take collective action through the UN Security Council. It addresses the question of whether public international law establishes a duty on the part of the individual Security Council members to collectively take the necessary action to prevent atrocities (genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and ethnic cleansing). To this end, it offers an interpretation of provisions in multilateral conventions, such as the undertaking to prevent genocide in Article 1 of the Genocide Convention and the undertaking to ensure respect for the Geneva Conventions in common Article 1 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, analyses the UN Charter framework for Security Council action, and explores whether the recognition of the international responsibility to protect has prompted the emergence of a new norm for general international law.

Book Unsecurity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Evan Francen
  • Publisher : Beaver's Pond Press
  • Release : 2019-01-14
  • ISBN : 9781643439747
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Unsecurity written by Evan Francen and published by Beaver's Pond Press. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information security is a rigged game and we have no choice but to play it every day. Rules are mandatory for the good guys but optional for the bad guys. And the good guys are losing. Now's the time to start playing offense and turn this game around. We can do it if we work together! UNSECURITY sounds the call and lays out the plan for information security professionals to unite in strength and fix this broken industry. Book jacket.

Book The UN Security Council

Download or read book The UN Security Council written by David Malone and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature and scope of UN Security Council decisions - significantly changed in the post-Cold War era - have enormous implications for the conduct of foreign policy. The UN Security Council offers a comprehensive view of the council both internally and as a key player in world politics. Focusing on the evolution of the council's treatment of key issues, the authors discuss new concerns that must be accommodated in the decisionmaking process, the challenges of enforcement, and shifting personal and institutional factors. Case studies complement the rich thematic chapters. The book sheds much-needed light on the central events and trends of the past decade and their critical importance for the future role of the council and the UN in the sphere of international security.

Book The Justification of Responsibility in the UN Security Council

Download or read book The Justification of Responsibility in the UN Security Council written by Holger Niemann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The UN Security Council has been given the primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security. The precise meaning of this responsibility, however, is contested. This lack of clarity is frequently criticised as a source of incoherent and selective decision-making, undermining the legitimacy of the Security Council. In case studies of the Security Council’s controversies on Iraq and Syria, this book instead reveals contestation and competing interpretations of responsibility as crucial conditions for the constitution and negotiation of normative order. The case studies also underline the importance of public Security Council meetings as dynamic sites for coping with a plurality of normative orders and how their symbolic and material manifestations shape processes of collective legitimation. This book concludes that these processes demonstrate the crucial role of justification and critique as practices of normative ordering in the Security Council. The Justification of Responsibility in the UN Security Council argues that normative orders in international organisations are constructed by multifaceted processes of questioning, reaffirming and coordinating claims of normativity and legitimacy. Connecting research on norms and legitimacy in international relations with pragmatist sociology, the book provides an account of the complexities and inconsistencies of decision-making processes and their normative foundations in international organisations. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of international organisations, international relations theory and global governance.

Book The UN Security Council and Domestic Actors

Download or read book The UN Security Council and Domestic Actors written by Machiko Kanetake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the exercise of authority by the UN Security Council and its subsidiary organs over individuals. The UN Security Council was created in 1945 as an outcome of World War II under the predominant assumption that it exercises its authority against states. Under this assumption, the UN Security Council and those individuals were ‘distanced’ by the presence of member states that intermediate between the Security Council’s international commands and those individuals that are subject to member states’ domestic law. However, in practice, the UN Security Council’s exercise of authority has incrementally removed the presence of state intermediaries and reduced the Security Council’s distance to individuals. This book demonstrates that this phenomenon has increased the relevance of domestic law in developing the international normative frameworks governing the UN Security Council and its subsidiary organs in safeguarding the rights, obligations, and interests of those affected individuals. This book presents how the UN Security Council’s exercise of authority has been received at the domestic level, and what would be the international implications of the Security Council’s extensive encounter with the actors who primarily reside in a domestic legal order.

Book Key Documents on the Reform of the UN Security Council 1991 2019

Download or read book Key Documents on the Reform of the UN Security Council 1991 2019 written by Bardo Fassbender and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 1443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Key Documents on the Reform of the UN Security Council 1991-2019” brings together primary source documents reflecting the political, legal and academic discussions about reform of the United Nations Security Council, in particular its membership and decision-making. The collection objectively reflects the various positions of all participants, including governments, UN bodies, universities and think tanks.

Book The UN Security Council and International Criminal Tribunals  Procedure Matters

Download or read book The UN Security Council and International Criminal Tribunals Procedure Matters written by Christodoulos Kaoutzanis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explains why and how the UN Security Council authorizes international criminal investigations into mass atrocities. In doing so, it tackles head-on the obvious double standards of global justice, where few atrocities get investigated and most slip below the headlines. The book argues that the Council’s decision-making procedure is central to understanding the Council’s decisions. This procedure is broken into three distinct steps, namely the role of diplomats at the Council, the Council’s reliance on third parties and the Council’s resort to precedent. The volume documents that the Council authorized international criminal investigations only into the handful of mass atrocities for which the Council’s deliberations successfully completed each of these three steps. Written for both scholars and practitioners, the book combines insights from the fields of international relations, international law and human rights. Through archival research and interviews with UNSC diplomats who took part in deliberations on atrocities, the volume presents evidence that supports its argument across cases and across time. In doing so, the book avoids the yes/no (or 0 vs 1) tendency of many social science projects, thereby acknowledging that there is no silver bullet to explain the work of the Council’s five permanent and ten elected members. Chris Kaoutzanis's Procedure Matters is a deep dive into how the UN Security Council actually works in dealing with some of the world's worst atrocities. Showing that UN procedure does matter, Kaoutzanis illuminates the limited accountability for international crimes that can be expected from that vital institution. As importantly, he offers a road map for how to use UN legitimating procedures to navigate the power politics of that august body. This is a map no scholar of international institutions and no human rights activist should be without. Michael Doyle, Columbia University This project recognizes what the scholarly literature has generally ignored or deemphasized: the central role of the Security Council in responding to mass atrocity situations. As much as international lawyers would hate to admit it, the legal response to international crimes is initially controlled not by international judges and tribunals, but rather by the Security Council and its geo-political and diplomatic complications. Kaoutzanis has put the sun back at the center of our solar system. Jens David Ohlin, Cornell Law School

Book China and Intervention at the Un Security Council

Download or read book China and Intervention at the Un Security Council written by Courtney J. Fung and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What explains China's response to intervention at the UN Security Council? China and Intervention at the UN Security Council argues that status is an overlooked determinant in understanding its decisions, even in the apex cases that are shadowed by a public discourse calling for foreign-imposed regime change in Sudan, Libya, and Syria. It posits that China reconciles its status dilemma as it weighs decisions to intervene: seeking recognition from both its intervention peer groups of great powers and developing states. Understanding the impact and scope conditions of status answers why China has taken certain positions regarding intervention and how these positions were justified. Foreign policy behavior that complies with status, and related social factors like self-image and identity, means that China can select policy options bearing material costs. China and Intervention at the UN Security Council offers a rich study of Chinese foreign policy, going beyond works available in breadth and in depth. It draws on an extensive collection of data, including over two hundred interviews with UN officials and Chinese foreign policy elites, participant observation at UN Headquarters, and a dataset of Chinese-language analysis regarding foreign-imposed regime change and intervention. The book concludes with new perspectives on the malleability of China's core interests, insights about the application of status for cooperation and the implications of the status dilemma for rising powers.

Book The Procedure of the UN Security Council

Download or read book The Procedure of the UN Security Council written by Loraine Sievers and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is a revised edition and contains new material documenting the extensive and rapid innovations in the UN Security Council's procedures of the past two decades. It provides insight into the inside workings of the world's pre-eminent body for the maintenance of international peace and security. Grounded in the history and politics of the Council, it describes the ways the Council has responded through its working methods to a changing world. It explains the Council's role in its wider UN Charter context and examines its relations with other UN organs and its own subsidiary bodies.

Book UN Security Council Reform

Download or read book UN Security Council Reform written by Peter Nadin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprehensively evaluates the current state and future reform prospects of the UN Security Council, providing the most accessible and rigorous treatment of the subject of reform to date. Apart from a couple of critical eyes in the academic community, few have asked the pertinent questions that this volume seeks to address: Will the enlargement of the Council constitute a reform? Could the inclusion of countries such as India, Germany, Japan, and Brazil markedly improve the Council’s agency? In response, this book focuses on: The Role and Agency of the UN Security Council The History of the Reform Debate An Expanded Council Working Method Reforms Enhancing Agency As the future of the UN Security Council continues to be the focus of fierce debate, this book will be essential reading for students of international relations, international organizations and international security studies alike.

Book Inside the Un Security Council

    Book Details:
  • Author : JESS. GIFKINS
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2023-11-28
  • ISBN : 0192869027
  • Pages : 241 pages

Download or read book Inside the Un Security Council written by JESS. GIFKINS and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UN Security Council decisions impact billions of people and yet its formal rules are minimal and tell us little about how decisions are made. Instead, informal, and often unwritten practices, form the basis of negotiations. Inside the UN Security Council analyses informal practices within Security Council decision-making, both in general and focused on the case of Darfur in the west of Sudan, to pull back the curtain on decision-making. Security Council negotiations on Darfur are analyzed in depth across issue areas of agenda-setting, sanctions, referral to the International Criminal Court, and peacekeeping. One way of understanding these informal practices is via the lens of legitimation. This is a useful approach because it brings to the fore the ways in which states seek legitimacy for themselves, and for Security Council decisions, as part of the negotiation process. Inside the UN Security Council introduces and develops the concept of legitimation practices to analyse the UN Security Council's decision-making. Legitimation practices shape the process and outcome of negotiations in two different ways. Internal legitimation practices, which relate to the legitimation of Security Council decisions, such as prioritizing unanimity, constrain and enable the text of resolutions. External legitimation practices such as 'doing something', even when it is known that it cannot be implemented, relate to the legitimation of actors in the negotiations and shape whether decisions can be reached at all. Foregrounding legitimation practices sheds light on seemingly contradictory moments within Security Council decision-making, such as the United States enabling the referral of the situation in Darfur to the International Criminal Court, despite its longstanding objections to the court and the capacity to veto the decision. The book draws on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, including original interviews with key decision-makers, to show that legitimation practices are an integral aspect of Security Council negotiations.

Book Denied Persons Pursuant to UN Security Council Resolution

Download or read book Denied Persons Pursuant to UN Security Council Resolution written by United Nations and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This official document by the United Nations provides a comprehensive list of individuals denied pursuant to a specific UN Security Council Resolution. It serves as a testament to the UN's commitment to maintaining international peace and security. The document is a blend of science, geography, and U.S. government documentation, offering insights into the global governance landscape.

Book Reforming the UN Security Council Membership

Download or read book Reforming the UN Security Council Membership written by Sabine Hassler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book places the discussion on reform of the Security Council membership in the context of its primary responsibility at the helm of the UN collective security system.

Book The UN Security Council and the Maintenance of Peace in a Changing World

Download or read book The UN Security Council and the Maintenance of Peace in a Changing World written by Congyan Cai and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three experts present their perspectives on the Security Council's role in maintaining peace in a changing international order.

Book Decision making in the UN Security Council

Download or read book Decision making in the UN Security Council written by David Malone and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and intriguing study examines the UN's efforts to reinstate Haitian President Aristide, overthrown in a 1991 coup. An active participant, Malone sheds new light on the roles and motivations of key actors, particularly the US.

Book China in the UN Security Council Decision making on Iraq

Download or read book China in the UN Security Council Decision making on Iraq written by Suzanne Xiao Yang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining China's changing role in the UN security council, in the context of policy decisions and the Iraq intervention.

Book The History and Politics of UN Security Council Reform

Download or read book The History and Politics of UN Security Council Reform written by Dimitris Bourantonis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, using an historical approach, provides a penetrating analysis of issues surrounding UN Security Council reform.