The UN Security Council and the Politics of International Authority

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ISBN: 9780415775274 | 0415775272
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 4/3/2008

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Bringing together a range of experts, this book examines the degree to which the UN Security Council is evolving into an international authority with the legitimacy to act on behalf of the international community on a wide range of global issues.

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List of illustrations	p. vii
Notes on Contributors	p. viii
Concepts	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
Theories and tests of international authority	p. 23
Sources of Council authority	p. 41
Delegation and the nature of Security Council authority	p. 43
International consensus and the changing legal authority of the UN Security Council	p. 57
The Security Council as legislature	p. 80
The Challenges and perils of normative overstretch	p. 105
The exercise of Council authority	p. 129
Creating authority by the Council: the international criminal tribunals	p. 131
NGOs and the Security Council: authority all around but for whose benefit?	p. 154
The Uniting for Peace resolution and other ways of circumventing the authority of the Security Council	p. 173
Conclusion	p. 197
Conclusion: assessing the Council's authority	p. 199
References and Interviews	p. 215
Index	p. 241
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