1st Edition

Understanding the UN Security Council Coercion or Consent?

By Neil Fenton Copyright 2004
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

This impressive work sheds light on the recent history of the UN Security Council (UNSC), examining how the penchant for UN-backed humanitarian intervention in the 1990s has given way to an impotent UNSC, unable to play a meaningful role in the war in Iraq. It examines the precepts that govern UNSC politics, including the sanctity of sovereign states, the norm of non-intervention and state... Read more
Contents: Understanding the centrality of consent; Northern Iraq 1991; Somalia; Haiti; Rwanda; Bosnia; Back to Iraq; Beyond consent and sovereignty?; List of interviews; Selected bibliography; Index.

Biography

Neil Fenton