The Security Council as Global Legislator
Security Council resolutions have undergone an important evolution over the last two decades. While continuing its traditional role of determining state-specific threats to peace and engaging accordingly in various peaceful or coercive measures, the Security Council has also adopted resolutions that have effectively imposed legal obligations on all United Nations member states.
This book seeks to move away from the discussions of whether the Security Council in the current composition and working methods is representative, capable or productive. Rather it assesses whether legislative activity by the Security Council can be beneficial to international peace and security. The authors examine and critique the capacities of the Security Council to address thematic international threats such as terrorism, weapons proliferations, targeting of civilians, recruitment of child soldiers, piracy as an alternative to the traditional model of addressing country-specific situations on a case-by-case basis. Ultimately, the book seeks to assess the efficacy of the Security Council as global legislator in terms of complementing the Security Councils mandate for the maintenance of international peace and security with a preventative and norm-setting capacity.
The book presents views from a diverse range of Security Council stakeholders including academic scholars, political analysts, and international lawyers. This resource will be of great interest to students of international relations, international organizations and international security studies alike.
Vesselin Popovski is a Senior Academic Program Officer at the United Nations University in Tokyo, Japan.
Trudy Fraser is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the United Nations University in Tokyo, Japan.
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The Global Institutions Series has three streams identified by one of three cover colors. Blue covers offer comprehensive, accessible, and informative guides to the history, structure, and activities of key international organizations, and introductions to topics of key importance in contemporary global governance. Recognized experts use a similar structure to address the general purpose and rationale for specific organizations along with historical developments, membership, structure, decision-making procedures, key functions, and an annotated bibliography and guide to electronic sources. Red covers consist of research monographs and edited collections that advance knowledge about one aspect of global governance; they reflect a wide variety of intellectual orientations, theoretical persuasions, and methodological approaches. Green covers will soon offer one-stop accounts for the major theoretical approaches to global governance and international organization. Together these streams provide a coherent and complementary portrait of the problems, prospects, and possibilities confronting global institutions today.
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The Security Council as global legislator / edited by Vesselin Popovski and Trudy Fraser.
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1. United Nations. Security CouncilPowers and duties. 2. United Nations. Security CouncilRules and practice. 3. Security, InternationalInternational cooperation. 4. PeacebuildingLaw and legislation. 5. PeaceHistory. 6. Peacekeeping forcesHistory. I. Popovski, Vesselin, author, editor of compilation. II. Fraser, Trudy, author, editor of compilation.
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Contents
VESSELIN POPOVSKI
ANTHONY F. LANG, JR
CHARLES SAMPFORD
HUGH BREAKEY
JAN WOUTERS AND JED ODERMATT
OLIVIA BOSCH
MONIKA HEUPEL
PETER LEHR
NOLLE QUNIVET
ROBERT ZUBER AND MELINA LITO
HUGH BREAKEY
TRUDY FRASER
MARTIN J. BURKE AND THOMAS G. WEISS
VESSELIN POPOVSKI
TRUDY FRASER
Olivia Bosch has more than 25 years experience in different aspects of non-proliferation and arms control, including on export controls of information security technology. From 2007 to 2012, she served at the United Nations (UN) in New York as an Expert to the Security Council resolution 1540 Committee concerning weapons of mass destruction (WMD) non-proliferation and non-state actors (www.un.org/sc/1540), and has served in Iraq as a weapons inspector. Previously, she worked at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House, London), where she analyzed issues including non-proliferation and critical information infrastructure. She is the co-editor of Global Non-Proliferation and Counter-Terrorism: The Impact of UNSCR 1540 (Brookings Institution Press et al. 2007). Between 1990 and 1999 she worked in the UK university sector lecturing and convening courses on topics including international relations, conflict and diplomacy, and arms control. Since 2007, she has been the Director of International Security and Communications Ltd, London. She holds a BA (with Honors) from the University of Virginia, an MA from Kings College London, and a PhD from the University of Reading (UK).
Hugh Breakey is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law and the Key Center for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance at Griffith University, Australia. He researches philosophical issues surrounding the nature of human rights, especially security, intellectual and property rights. His award-winning PhD dissertation argued that natural Lockean rights constrain the legitimate scope and strength of intellectual property rights. He has published in top law, ethics and philosophy journals, including
