The UN Security Council in the 21st Century

Media type: E-Book

Title: The UN Security Council in the 21st Century

Contains: Frontmatter
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 The UN Security Council: Decisions and Actions
Part 1 Competing Interests on the Security Council
3 The United States in the Security Council
4 China in the Security Council
5 Russia in the Security Council
6 France and the United Kingdom in the Security Council
7 Power Dynamics Between Permanent and Elected Members
8 Council Reform and the Emerging Powers
9 Working Methods: The Ugly Duckling of Security Council Reform
10 The Security Council at Seventy: Ever Changing or Never Changing?
Part 2 Addressing Thematic Issues
11 Humanitarian Action and Intervention
12 Promoting Democracy
13 Acting on Human Rights
14 Responding to Terrorism
15 Confronting Organized Crime and Piracy
16 Weapons of Mass Destruction: Managing Proliferation
17 The Use of Force: A System of Selective Security
18 Robust Peacekeeping and the Limits of Force
19 The Security Council and NATO
20 The Role of Sanctions
Part 4 Evolving Institutional Factors
21 Relations with the UN Secretary-General
22 Special Representatives of the Secretary-General
23 Collaborating with Regional Organizations
24 Groups of Friends
25 International Courts and Tribunal
Part 5 Key Country Cases
26 The Arab-Israeli Conflict
27 Iraq
28 The Balkans
29 Somalia
30 Sudan
31 Afghanistan
32 The Democratic Republic of the Congo
33 Côte d’Ivoire
34 Libya
35 Syria
Part 6 The Security Council and International Order
36 The Security Council and Peacekeeping
37 The Security Council and International Law
38 The Security Council and the Changing Distribution of Power
39 The Security Council in a Fragmenting World
40 Conclusion: The Security Council and a World in Crisis
Appendixes
Appendix 1 Security Council–Mandated UN Peacekeeping Operations and Observer Missions, 1945–2014
Appendix 2 Security Council–Mandated UN Political Missions, 1989–2014
Appendix 3 Non-UN Peace or Enforcement Operations Mandated by the Security Council, 1945–2014
Appendix 4 Security Council–Mandated Sanctions Regimes, 1945–2014
Appendix 5 Vetoes Cast in the UN Security Council, 1989–2014
Acronyms
Bibliography
The Contributors
Index
About the Book

Contributor: Bellamy, Alex J. [Contributor]; Berdal, Mats [Contributor]; Bouillon, Markus E. [Contributor]; Boutellis, Arthur [Contributor]; Carayannis, Tatiana [Contributor]; Chesterman, Simon [Contributor]; Cockayne, James [Contributor]; Dergham, Raghida [Contributor]; Eckert, Sue [Contributor]; Einsiedel, Sebastian von [Contributor]; Gowan, Richard [Contributor]; Greenstock, Jeremy [Contributor]; Guéhenno, Jean-Marie [Contributor]; Hirsch, John L. [Contributor]; Johansson, Patrik [Contributor]; Johnstone, Ian [Contributor]; Jones, Bruce [Contributor]; Keating, Colin [Contributor]; Luck, Edward C. [Contributor]; Mahbubani, Kishore [Contributor]; Malone, David M. [Contributor]; Malone, David M. [Editor]; Mancini, Francesco [Contributor]; Nitzschke, Heiko [Contributor]; Novosseloff, Alexandra [Contributor]; Peck, Connie [Contributor]; Roberts, Adam [Contributor]; Roberts, Amanda [Contributor]; Romaniuk, Peter [Contributor]; Rød-Larsen, Terje [Contributor]; Schaper, Herman [Contributor]; Shaikh, Salman [Contributor]; Sidhu, Waheguru Pal Singh [Contributor]; Stagno, Bruno Ugarte [Editor]; Stedman, Stephen John [Contributor]; Sthoeger, Eran [Contributor]; Tardy, Thierry [Contributor]; Trenin, Dmitri [Contributor]; Ugarte, Bruno Stagno [Contributor]; Vendrell, Francesc [Contributor]; Wallensteen, Peter [Contributor]; Weiss, Thomas G. [Contributor]; Wenaweser, Christian [Contributor]; Wenqi, Zhu [Contributor]; Weschler, Joanna [Contributor]; Whitfield, Teresa [Contributor]; Williams, Paul D. [Contributor]; Xinyu, Leng [Contributor]; von Einsiedel, Sebastian [Editor]

Published: Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, [2022]

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (998 p.)

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781685853730

ISBN: 9781685853730

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Keywords: POLITICAL SCIENCE / General

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Footnote: In English

Description: A comprehensive view of the UN Security Council’s internal dynamics, its role and relevance in world politics, and its performance in addressing today’s major security challenges

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