The UN Security Council and the politics of international authority
By: edited by Bruce Cronin and Ian Hurd.
Contributors: Cronin, Bruce, 1957-; Hurd, Ian.
Series: Security and governance series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780415775274; 9780415775281; 9780203933305
Subjects: United Nations. -- Security Council; Intervention (International law); Security, International
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-239) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Bruce Cronin and Ian Hurd; title: Theories and tests of international authority / Ian Hurd; title: Delegation and the nature of Security Council authority / Erik Voeten; title: International consensus and the changing legal authority of the UN Security Council / Bruce Cronin; title: The Security Council as legislature / Ian Johnstone; title: The challenges and perils of normative overstretch / George J. Andreopoulos; title: Creating authority by the Council : the international criminal tribunals / Wayne Sandholtz; title: NGOs and the Security Council : authority all around but for whose benefit? / Jonathan Graubart; title: The Uniting for Peace resolution and other ways of circumventing the authority of the Security Council / Jean Krasno and Mitushi Das; title: Conclusion : assessing the Council's authority / Bruce Cronin and Ian Hurd.