Simon Chesterman

Just War or Just Peace ? ' Humanitarian Intervention and International Law '

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Chapters 4 and 5, therefore, examine Security Council activism in the 1990s, notable for the plasticity of the circumstances in which the Council was prepared to assert its primary responsibility for international peace and security, and the contingency of its actions on the willingness of states to carry them out. This reduction of the Council's role from a substantive one to a formal one partly explains the recourse to unilateralism in that decade, most spectacularly in relation to the situation in Kosovo. Crucially, the book argues that such unilateral enforcement is not a substitute for but the opposite of collective action. Though often presented as the only alternative to inaction, incorporating a 'right' of intervention would lead to more such interventions being undertaken in bad faith, it would be incoherent as a principle, and it would be inimical to the emergence of an international rule of law.

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This book asks whether states have the right to intervene in foreign civil conflicts for humanitarian reasons. The UN Charter prohibits state aggression, but many argue that such a right exists as an exception to this rule. Offering a thorough analysis of this issue, the book puts NATO's action in Kosovo in its proper legal perspective.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. März 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 164mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 597g
• ISBN-13: 9780199243372
• ISBN-10: 0199243379
• Artikelnr.: 21470479

Autorenporträt

Simon Chesterman is a Senior Associate at the International Peace Academy in New York

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: The Just War: The origins of humanitarian intervention
* 2: The Scourge of War: Humanitarian intervention and the prohibition
of the use of force in the UN Charter
* 3: 'You, the People': Unilateral intervention to promote democracy
* 4: The New Interventionism: Threats to international peace and
security and Security Council actions under Chapter VII of the UN
Charter
* 5: Passing the Baton: The delegation of Security Council enforcement
powers from Kuwait to Kosovo
* 6: Just War or Just Peace? Humanitarian intervention, inhumanitarian
non-intervention and other peace strategies
* Bibliography