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The United Nations Security Council and War
The Evolution of Thought and Practice since 1945
Edited by Vaughan Lowe, Adam Roberts, Jennifer Welsh, and Dominik Zaum
816 pages
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246x171mm
978-0-19-958330-0
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Paperback
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15 April 2010
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- First comprehensive examination of the UN Security Council's efforts to address war.
- Engagingly written by leading international scholars.
- Provides unique, easily accessible, and up-to-date resource for researchers and practitioners, making it an indispensable reference work.
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.
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book is a project of the Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War.Readership: Scholars and students of international relations, international law, modern history, the UN, peacekeeping operations, and those interested in the study of war and conflict.
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Edited by Vaughan Lowe, Chichele Professor of International Law, All Souls College, Oxford, Adam Roberts, President of the British Academy, Jennifer Welsh, Professor in International Relations, Somerville College, Oxford, and Dominik Zaum, Reader in International Relations, University of Reading Contributors:
Adekeye Adebajo is Executive Director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town, South Africa.
Mats Berdal is Professor of Security and Development in the Department of War Studies, King's College London.
Jane Boulden holds a Canada Research Chair in
International Relations and Security Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada. Previously, she was a MacArthur Research Fellow at the Centre for International Studies, University of Oxford.
Richard Caplan is Professor of International Relations at Oxford University and a Fellow of Linacre College.
James Cockayne (BA, LLB, LLM) is an Associate at the International Peace Academy.
David Cortright is president of the Fourth Freedom Forum and a research fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
Gilles Dorronsoro is currently professor of political science in the University of Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris).
J.P.D. Dunbabin originally read Modern History. He was from 1961-2 in
the Ministry of Transport, from 1963-2004 Fellow and Tutor at St.Edmund Hall, Oxford (in 1998-9 Acting Principal), latterly also University Reader in International Relations.
Linda Gerber-Stellingwerf is research director of the Fourth Freedom Forum in Goshen, Indiana.
Christine Gray is currently Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College.
Sir Jeremy Greenstock (GCMG) is the Director of the Ditchley Foundation.
Bruce Jones is Co-Director of NYU's Center on International Cooperation, where he leads research on multilateral security institutions and the UN, and consulting professor at Stanford University.
Nico Krisch is a Lecturer in Law at the London School of Economics and has
been a research fellow at Merton College, Oxford, New York University Law School, and the Max Planck Institute for International Law in Heidelberg.
George A. Lopez is Senior Fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
William Roger Louis is Kerr Professor of English History and Culture at the University of Texas at Austin and a past President of the American Historical Association.
Vaughan Lowe is Chichele Professor of Public International Law, and a Fellow of All Souls College, in the University of Oxford.
Edward C. Luck is Professor of Practice in International and Public Affairs and Director of the Center on International Organization of the School of International and Public
Affairs, Columbia University.
David Malone is Canada's High Commissioner to India and Ambassador to Nepal and Bhutan. A former Canadian Ambassador to the UN, he oversaw Canada's multilateral and economic diplomacy with its Foreign Ministry, 2004-2006. Georg Nolte is Professor of Law at the University of Munich. In 2003/04 he was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.
Sarah Percy is University Lecturer and Fellow in International Relations at Merton College, Oxford.
Sir Adam Roberts was Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University, and a Fellow of Balliol College, from 1986 to 2007.
Rahul Roy-Chaudhury is Research Fellow for South Asia at The International Institute for Strategic Studies, London.
Dan Sarooshi is Professor of International Law in the University of Oxford.
David Scheffer is the Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw/Robert A. Helman Professor of Law and Director of the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University School of Law.
General Sir Rupert Smith (KCB DSO OBE QGM) retired from the British Army in January 2002 after 40 years' service in East and South Africa, Arabia, the Caribbean, Europe, and Malaysia.
William Stueck has written extensively about the Korean War, most notably in The Korean War: An International History (Princeton University Press, 1995) and Rethinking the Korean War: A New Diplomatic and Strategic History (Princeton University Press, 2002).
Charles Tripp is Reader in Politics with
reference to the Middle East, at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Jennifer Welsh is Professor in International Relations at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Somerville College.
Susan Woodward is Professor of Political Science at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York and senior fellow, FRIDE, Madrid.
Dominik Zaum is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Reading, and author of The Sovereignty Paradox: The Norms and Politics of International Statebuilding (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
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"A useful reference work that supplements smaller studiesSumming Up: Recommended." - Choice, Apr 2011 "A definitive interdisciplinary work on an important subject ... The depth of knowledge and experience provides fascinating and essential reading for anyone interested in the area of international peace and security, regardless of their disciplinary background and whether practitioner or academic" - Christian Henderson in International and Comparative Law Quarterly "The United Nations Security Council and War is an essential work, full of astute observations. Set apart by the wealth of ideas and diversity of viewpoints, this edited collection provides a seminal and well-balanced account of the Security
Council's dealing with war since 1945." - Robin Geiss in German Yearbook of International Law "a magnificent achievement... this book will stand out as an indispensable tool in the vast literature on the UN Security Council, set apart by the quality of its research, the wealth of extensive and carefully researched data it contains, as well as the diversity of viewpoints it offers." - Professor Gilles Andréani in Survival "An incredible achievement, magisterial and definitive. This is an essential work on anyone's bookshelf." - Professor Lawrence Freedman, June 2008 "this excellent edited collection ... consistently high standard we should not forget that for better or worse the UN can only work well when its
Great Powers work together. Analysts and policy-makers alike would be better prepared to bring this about if they read this important new book." - Professor Paul Williams, International Affairs "This substantial, comprehensive, and authoritative volume contains 28 chapters by leading academics, lawyers, and practitioners, plus detailed appendices covering UN resolutions, sanctions, and operations." - Foreign Affairs, December 2008 "That the book will stand as an authoritative piece is not in doubt." - Dr Kennedy Graham, University of Canterbury New Zealand Yearbook of International law
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1: Vaughan Lowe, Adam Roberts, Jennifer Welsh and Dominik Zaum: Introduction
Part I: The Framework
2: Edward C. Luck: A Council for All Seasons: The Creation of the Security Council and Its Relevance Today
3: Christine Gray: The Charter Limitations on the Use of Force: Theory and Practice
4: Adam Roberts: Proposals for UN Standing Forces: A Critical History
Part II: The Roles of the Security Council
5: Nico Krisch: The Great Powers and the Security Council
6: Dominik Zaum: The Security Council, the General Assembly, and War: The Uniting for Peace Resolution
7: Mats Berdal: The Security Council and Peacekeeping
8: David Cortright, George Lopez, and Linda Gerber Stellingwerf: The Sanctions Era: Themes and Trends in UN Security Council Sanctions since 1990
9: Dan Sarooshi: The Authorization by the Security Council of Regional Arrangements to Use Force: The Case of NATO
10: Jeremy Greenstock: The Security Council in the Post-Cold War World
Part III: Case Studies
11: William Stueck: The United Nations, the Security Council, and the Korean War
12: Roger Louis: The Suez Crisis and the British Dilemma at the United Nations
13: Bruce Jones: The Security Council and the Arab-Israeli Wars: Responsibility without Power
14: Rahul Roy-Chaudhury: The Security Council and the India-Pakistan Wars
15: Peter Carey with Pat Walsh: The Security Council and the Question of East Timor'
16: Charles Tripp: The Security Council and the Iran-Iraq War
17: James Cockayne and David Malone: The Security Council and the 1991 and 2003 Iraq Wars
18: Susan Woodward: The Security Council and the Wars in the former Yugoslavia
19: Rupert Smith: The Security Council and the Bosnia Conflict: A Practitioner's View
20: Gilles Dorronsoro: The Security Council and Afghanistan
21: Adekeye Adebajo: The Security Council and Three Wars in West Africa
22: J.P.D. Dunbabin: The Security Council in the Wings: Exploring the Non-Involvement of the Security Council in Wars
Part IV: The Security Council and the Changing Character of War
23: Georg Nolte: The Different Functions of the Security Council with Respect to Humanitarian Law
24: Jennifer Welsh: The Security Council and Interventions with Humanitarian Purposes
25: Richard Caplan: The Security Council and International Administration of War-Torn and Contested Territories
26: David Scheffer: The Security Council and International Law on Military Occupations
27: Jane Boulden: The Security Council and Terrorism
28: Sarah Percy: The Security Council and the Use of Private Force
Appendices
1: UN Peacekeeping Operations, 1945 - 2006
2: UN Forces, Missions, and Institutions not Classified as Peacekeeping Operations, 1945 - 2006
3: UN-Authorized Military Operations, 1945 - 2006
4: UN-Authorized Sanctions, 1945 - 2006
5: Vetoed Security Council Resolutions, 1945 - 2006
6: Uses of the Uniting for Peace Resolution, 1950 - 2006
7: List of Armed Conflicts and Crises, 1945 - 2006
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