The United Nations, Peace and Security: From Collective Security to the Responsibility to ProtectCambridge University Press, 2006 M06 8 Preventing humanitarian atrocities is becoming as important for the United Nations as dealing with inter-state war. In this book, Ramesh Thakur examines the transformation in UN operations, analysing its changing role and structure. He asks why, when and how force may be used and argues that the growing gulf between legality and legitimacy is evidence of an eroded sense of international community. He considers the tension between the US, with its capacity to use force and project power, and the UN, as the centre of the international law enforcement system. He asserts the central importance of the rule of law and of a rules-based order focused on the UN as the foundation of a civilised system of international relations. This book will be of interest to students of the UN and international organisations in politics, law and international relations departments, as well as policymakers in the UN and other NGOs. |
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... interests of member states as well as the disputants . Gareth Evans has drawn attention to the attractions of using UN channels and modalities for resolving disputes peacefully and to the abysmal imbalance in resources devoted to ...
... interests of member states as well as the disputants . Gareth Evans has drawn attention to the attractions of using UN channels and modalities for resolving disputes peacefully and to the abysmal imbalance in resources devoted to ...
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... interests shift, and the number of minorities whose support has been lost could add up to constitute a majority. Besides, today's majority may be tomorrow's minority. The UN cannot use force without first becoming an international ...
... interests shift, and the number of minorities whose support has been lost could add up to constitute a majority. Besides, today's majority may be tomorrow's minority. The UN cannot use force without first becoming an international ...
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... interests. President George Bush left office on a cautiously optimistic note with regard to US–UN relations in international peace operations. The Clinton 2 administration came in with an initial blush of enthusiasm that. Report of the ...
... interests. President George Bush left office on a cautiously optimistic note with regard to US–UN relations in international peace operations. The Clinton 2 administration came in with an initial blush of enthusiasm that. Report of the ...
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... to the establishment of any peacekeeping mission ; its national interests were protected through avoidance of military entanglement in a conflict without major signifi- 50 AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR KEEPING THE PEACE.
... to the establishment of any peacekeeping mission ; its national interests were protected through avoidance of military entanglement in a conflict without major signifi- 50 AN INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATION FOR KEEPING THE PEACE.
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... interests. The Cyprus oper- ation in 1964 was at the request and with the participation of loyal ally Britain and a means of keeping NATO members Greece and Turkey from each other's throats. The principle of UN peacekeeping therefore ...
... interests. The Cyprus oper- ation in 1964 was at the request and with the participation of loyal ally Britain and a means of keeping NATO members Greece and Turkey from each other's throats. The principle of UN peacekeeping therefore ...
Contents
Section 20 | 209 |
Section 21 | 219 |
Section 22 | 222 |
Section 23 | 229 |
Section 24 | 235 |
Section 25 | 244 |
Section 26 | 257 |
Section 27 | 260 |
Section 9 | 134 |
Section 10 | 142 |
Section 11 | 151 |
Section 12 | 134 |
Section 13 | 151 |
Section 14 | 159 |
Section 15 | 160 |
Section 16 | 162 |
Section 17 | 164 |
Section 18 | 181 |
Section 19 | 203 |
Section 28 | 264 |
Section 29 | 274 |
Section 30 | 281 |
Section 31 | 264 |
Section 32 | 268 |
Section 33 | 274 |
Section 34 | 281 |
Section 35 | 291 |
Section 36 | 299 |
Section 37 | 320 |
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Page 210 - The Security Council shall, where appropriate, utilize such regional arrangements or agencies for enforcement action under its authority. But no enforcement action shall be taken under regional arrangements or by regional agencies without the authorization of the Security Council...
Page 32 - Should the Security Council consider that measures provided for in Article 41 would be inadequate or have proved to be inadequate, it may take such action by air, sea or land forces as may be necessary to maintain or restore international peace and security.
Page 268 - A. large scale loss of life, actual or apprehended, with genocidal intent or not, which is the product either of deliberate state action, or state neglect or inability to act, or a failed state situation; or B. large scale 'ethnic cleansing', actual or apprehended, whether carried out by killing, forced expulsion, acts of terror or rape.
Page 227 - Any other act intended to cause death or serious bodily injury to a civilian, or to any other person not taking an active part in the hostilities in a situation of armed conflict, when the purpose of such act, by its nature or context, is to intimidate a population, or to compel a government or an international organization to do or to abstain from doing any act.
Page 265 - Where a population is suffering serious harm, as a result of internal war, insurgency, repression or state failure, and the state in question is unwilling or unable to halt or avert it, the principle of nonintervention yields to the international responsibility to protect.
Page 233 - What will die is the fantasy of the UN as the foundation of a new world order. As we sift the debris, it will be important to preserve, the better to understand, the intellectual wreckage of the liberal conceit of safety through international law administered by international...
Page 268 - Military intervention for human protection purposes is an exceptional and extraordinary measure. To be warranted, there must be serious and irreparable harm occurring to human beings, or imminently likely to occur, of the following kind: A.
Page 265 - M. Deng et al., Sovereignty as Responsibility: Conflict Management in Africa (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1996), esp.