Hard Cases
Journal: Oxford University Press eBooks
Year: 2016

Abstract This chapter examines several resolutions surrounding the use of force in Iraq and a second situation in which force was used in the name of the international community but without authorization from the Security Council, through NATO’s 1999 Kosovo intervention. In different ways, both situations challenged the claim of the United Nations to fulfill its primary purpose of saving succeeding generations from the scourge of war. It goes on to examine the Council’s decisions on two more rec