The Un Security Council And Informal Groups Of States

Author : Jochen Prantl
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191537011

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The UN Security Council and Informal Groups of States by Jochen Prantl Pdf

This book provides the first comparative treatment of the roles of informal ad hoc groupings of states within selected conflict settings and their effects on governance in and out of the UN Security Council. Since the 1990s, informal institutions such as groups of friends, and contact or core groups have proliferated as instruments for the management of risk and conflict due to the increasing demands on the UN Security Council to adapt to the new post-cold war security environment. The perception of both the capacity and limits of the Security Council has had a catalytic effect on the creation of these ad hoc mechanisms. The substance of conflict resolution and the process of its legitimation tend to become increasingly detached, with the former being delegated to informal groups or coalition of states, while the Security Council provides the latter. The successful merger of right process and substantive outcome may strengthen the legitimacy of the Council and make actions taken by informal institutions more acceptable. This book seeks to establish the importance of informal ad hoc groupings of states in the making of peace. The dynamics between informal institutions and the Security Council are closely examined in the context of conflict resolution in Namibia, El Salvador, and Kosovo. The study illustrates the changing role of the Council in the maintenance of international peace and security. The decentralization of tasks to informal groups allows the achievement of policy goals that would be unattainable in the centralized setting of formal international organizations. In effect, informal institutions are agents of incremental change.

Author : Jochen Prantl,Research Fellow in International Relations Jochen Prantl
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199287680

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The UN Security Council and Informal Groups of States by Jochen Prantl,Research Fellow in International Relations Jochen Prantl Pdf

This book provides the first comparative treatment of the roles of informal ad hoc groupings of states within selected conflict settings and their effects on governance in and out of the UN Security Council.Since the 1990s, informal institutions such as groups of friends, and contact or core groups have proliferated as instruments for the management of risk and conflict due to the increasing demands on the UN Security Council to adapt to the new post-cold war security environment. The perception of both the capacity and limits of the Security Council has had a catalytic effect on the creation of these ad hoc mechanisms. The substance of conflict resolution and the process of itslegitimation tend to become increasingly detached, with the former being delegated to informal groups or coalition of states, while the Security Council provides the latter. The successful merger of right process and substantive outcome may strengthen the legitimacy of the Council and make actions taken by informalinstitutions more acceptable.This book seeks to establish the importance of informal ad hoc groupings of states in the making of peace. The dynamics between informal institutions and the Security Council are closely examined in the context of conflict resolution in Namibia, El Salvador, and Kosovo. The study illustrates the changing role of the Council in the maintenance of international peace and security. The decentralization of tasks to informal groups allows the achievement of policy goals that would beunattainable in the centralized setting of formal international organizations. In effect, informal institutions are agents of incremental change.

Author : Loraine Sievers,Sam Daws
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199685295

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The Procedure of the UN Security Council by Loraine Sievers,Sam Daws Pdf

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.

Author : Richard S. Williamson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Humanitarian intervention
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063750199

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The United States and UN Peacekeeping by Richard S. Williamson Pdf

Author : Phillip Y. Lipscy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107149762

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Renegotiating the World Order by Phillip Y. Lipscy Pdf

Phillip Y. Lipscy explains how countries renegotiate international institutions when rising powers such as Japan and China challenge the existing order. This book is particularly relevant for those interested in topics such as international organizations, such as United Nations, IMF, and World Bank, political economy, international security, US diplomacy, Chinese diplomacy, and Japanese diplomacy.

Author : Edward C. Luck
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415355311

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UN Security Council by Edward C. Luck Pdf

Written by best-selling author Edward C. Luck, this new text is broad and engaging enough for undergraduates, sophisticated enough for graduates and lively enough for a wider audience interested in the key institutions of international public policy. Looking at the antecedents of the UN Security Council, as well as the current issues and future challenges that it faces, this new book includes: historical perspectives the founding vision procedures and practices economic enforcement peace operations and military enforcement human security proliferation and WMD terrorism reform, adaptation and change.

Author : Vaughan Lowe,Adam Roberts,Jennifer Welsh,Dominik Zaum
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191614934

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The United Nations Security Council and War by Vaughan Lowe,Adam Roberts,Jennifer Welsh,Dominik Zaum Pdf

This is the first major exploration of the United Nations Security Council's part in addressing the problem of war, both civil and international, since 1945. Both during and after the Cold War the Council has acted in a limited and selective manner, and its work has sometimes resulted in failure. It has not been - and was never equipped to be - the centre of a comprehensive system of collective security. However, it remains the body charged with primary responsibility for international peace and security. It offers unique opportunities for international consultation and military collaboration, and for developing legal and normative frameworks. It has played a part in the reduction in the incidence of international war in the period since 1945. This study examines the extent to which the work of the UN Security Council, as it has evolved, has or has not replaced older systems of power politics and practices regarding the use of force. Its starting point is the failure to implement the UN Charter scheme of having combat forces under direct UN command. Instead, the Council has advanced the use of international peacekeeping forces; it has authorized coalitions of states to take military action; and it has developed some unanticipated roles such as the establishment of post-conflict transitional administrations, international criminal tribunals, and anti-terrorism committees. The book, bringing together distinguished scholars and practitioners, draws on the methods of the lawyer, the historian, the student of international relations, and the practitioner. It begins with an introductory overview of the Council's evolving roles and responsibilities. It then discusses specific thematic issues, and through a wide range of case studies examines the scope and limitations of the Council's involvement in war. It offers frank accounts of how belligerents viewed the UN, and how the Council acted and sometimes failed to act. The appendices provide comprehensive information - much of it not previously brought together in this form - of the extraordinary range of the Council's activities. This book is a project of the Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War.

Author : Peter Nadin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317417583

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UN Security Council Reform by Peter Nadin Pdf

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.

Author : Teresa Whitfield
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 1601270062

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Friends Indeed? by Teresa Whitfield Pdf

Friends Indeed? adds to the literature on international conflict resolution and the role played by groups of states created to support UN peacemakeing and peace operations. This book furthers our understanding of how and in what circumstances the United Nations secretary-general and secretariat can work productively with these "group of friends" in the resolution of conflict.

Author : Terrence L. Chapman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0549026223

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Information and Institutional Legitimacy: The UN Security Council, Regional Organizations, and State Behavior by Terrence L. Chapman Pdf

How do international institutions matter in security affairs? Although scholars have devoted considerable attention the role of institutions, very little work focuses on how they may alter foreign policy behavior in the "high-politics" realm of security. One extant answer is that institutions can provide legitimacy to foreign policy. This dissertation examines this claim through the lens of rationalist theories of information transmission. A formal model of strategic information transmission between an international institution, a sovereign government, and a domestic audience, is analyzed. The results demonstrate that legitimacy often derives from biased institutions. The theory's predictions are tested on U.S. public reaction to UN Security Council decisions regarding U.S. uses of force, the decision of states to consult international organizations during all crises 1946-2003, and the decision of states to come to the aid of allies conditional on international institution support. Taken together, the findings suggest that the UN Security Council is most influential when it is perceived as biased, relative to the state seeking its sanction. The theory and empirics highlight and important and novel way institutions matter through the indirect channel of public opinion.

Author : Dries Lesage,Pierre Vercauteren
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : 9052015643

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Contemporary Global Governance by Dries Lesage,Pierre Vercauteren Pdf

This book explores two dimensions of contemporary global governance. The first part looks at the relationship between multipolarity and global governance. Thus the position of major players in global governance - namely China, Russia, the Trilateral Dialogue Forum of India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA), Japan and the EU - is examined. The second part takes a look at particular discourses that inform the debate about global governance. In this context, the book investigates issues such as the relationship between global governance and democracy, global governance and security thinking, and the way international institutions influence national policy. This volume builds on research activities within the network REGIMEN (Research Network on International Governance, Globalization and the Transformation of the State).

Author : Rosa Freedman,Nicolas Lemay-Hébert,Siobhán Wills
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108477529

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The Law and Practice of Peacekeeping by Rosa Freedman,Nicolas Lemay-Hébert,Siobhán Wills Pdf

An innovative analysis of accountability in international peacekeeping and human rights, with a focus on the UN's Haiti mission.

Author : Adam Chapnick
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774861649

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Canada on the United Nations Security Council by Adam Chapnick Pdf

As the twentieth century ended, Canada was completing its sixth term on the UN Security Council. A decade later, Ottawa’s attempt to return to the council was dramatically rejected by its global peers, leaving Canadians – and international observers – shocked and disappointed. Canada on the United Nations Security Council tells the story of that defeat and what it means for future campaigns, describing and analyzing Canada’s attempts since 1946, both successful and unsuccessful, to gain a seat as a non-permanent member. Impeccably researched and clearly written, this is the definitive history of the Canadian experience on the world’s most powerful stage.

Author : David Malone
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1588262405

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The UN Security Council by David Malone Pdf

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.

Author : Christodoulos Kaoutzanis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030237776

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The UN Security Council and International Criminal Tribunals: Procedure Matters by Christodoulos Kaoutzanis Pdf

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