1st Edition

The UN Security Council and Domestic Actors Distance in international law

260 Pages

by Routledge

258 Pages

by Routledge

260 Pages

by Routledge

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This book analyses the exercise of authority by the UN Security Council and its subsidiary organs over individuals. The UN Security Council was created in 1945 as an outcome of World War II under the predominant assumption that it exercises its authority against states. Under this assumption, the UN Security Council and those individuals were ‘distanced’ by the presence of member states that... Read more

List of cases

Security Council Resolutions

List of abbreviations

Preface

1 Introduction

2 The League of Nations and domestic actors

3 Conceptual distance

4 Distance in the Security Council’s Chapter VII measures

5 Reception in international law: a general framework

6 Reception in international law: specific Chapter VII measures

7 Reception in domestic law

8 International implications of the Security Council’s encounter with domestic actors