United Nations Reform and the New Collective Security
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK
ISBN-13: 9780521515436
Table of contents: title: Part 1: Law and politics in United Nations reform; title: 1. Things fall apart: the concept of collective security in international law; title: 2. Reflections on the politics of institutional reform; title: 3. Great Powers then and now: Security Council reform and responses to threats to peace and security; title: Part 2: Defining "threats" to collective security; title: 4. Assessing the High-Level Panel Report: rethinking the causes and consequences of threats to collective security; title: 5. Collective security and the responsibility to protect; title: 6. Responses to nonmilitary threats: environment, disease, and technology; title: Part 3: Prevention and responses; title: 7. On the far side of conflict: the UN Peacebuilding Commission as optical illusion; title: 8. The new peacebuilding architecture: an institutional innovation of the United Nations; title: 9. The World Summit process and the UN sanctions reform: between rhetoric and force; title: 10. The UN response to the evolving threat of global terrorism: institutional reform, rivalry, or renewal?; title: 11. International justice and collective security: between pragmatism and principle; title: Part 4: Perspectives on the ground; title: 12. Developing security in the eastern Democratic republic of the Congo: MONUC as a practical example of (failing) collective security.; title: 13. Indirect power: a critical look at civil society in the new Human Rights Council; title: 14. Collective security: a village-eye view