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The Security Council and the use of force : theory and reality, a need for change?

Addresses the authority of the Security Council to regulate the use of force. In seeking a response, the book analyses both the Charter law and Security Council practice. A number of issues relating to the right of self-defence are analyzed, as well as the roles of NATO and the African Union.
Print Book, English, [2005]
Martinus Nijhoff, Leiden, [2005]
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XX, 308 p. ; 25 cm.
9789004146426, 9004146423
642562907
Foreword– Pieter Kooijmans, Introduction – Niels Blokker & Nico Schrijver, Notes on Contributors, Acknowledgements, List of Abbreviations, 1 Niels Blokker, The Security Council and the Use of Force – On Recent Practice. 2 Nico Schrijver, Challenges to the Prohibition to Use Force: Does the Straitjacket of Article 2(4) UN Charter Begin to Gall too Much?, 3 Mary Ellen O’Connell, The United Nations Security Council and the Authorization of Force: Renewing the Council Through Law Reform, 4 Peter van Walsum, The Security Council and the Use of Force: Kosovo, East Timor and Iraq, 5 Michael Wood, Towards New Circumstances in Which the Use of Force May be Authorized?, 6 Ralph Zacklin, The Use of Force in Peacekeeping Operations, 7 Jutta Brunnée, The Security Council and Self-Defence: Which Way to Global Security?, 8 André Nollkaemper, Attribution of Forcible Acts to States: Connections Between the Law on the Use of Force and the Law of State Responsibility, 9 Stephen Mathias, The United States and the Security Council, 10 Marten Zwanenburg, NATO, Its Member States and the Security Council, 11 Jeremy Levitt, 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 Niels Blokker, Towards a Second Enlargement of the Security Council? A Comparative Perspective, 13 Karel van Kesteren, Reforming the Security Council: Views from Practice, 14 Jean-Pierre Cot, 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), Appendix II: Extracts from In Larger Freedom: Towards Development, Security and Human Rights for All (Report of the Secretary-General)
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La obra contiene artículos presentados en una conferencia organizada en 2004 en Leiden University