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International Organizations’ Emergency Powers: Ratchet or Rollback?

Christian Kreuder-Sonnen • Dec 17 2019 • Articles

Although emergency powers come with formidable normative problems, when International Organisations resort to emergency politics they do what they were envisioned for.

Student Feature – Spotlight on The United Nations Security Council

Thomas Dörfler • Aug 21 2019 • Student Features

The Security Council is the most powerful organ of the United Nations and charged with ensuring international peace and security.

The Veto: Problems and Prospects

Thomas G. Weiss and Giovanna Kuele • Mar 27 2014 • Articles

Permanent Security Council membership and the veto appear anachronistic relics. They are here to stay because every proposed change raises as many problems as it solves.

Six Reasons Why the UN Security Council Should Not Discuss Climate Change

Dhanasree Jayaram • Apr 26 2013 • Articles

Now may be the right time to shift attention from the UNSC to an alternative forum through which the implications of climate change could be discussed and solutions elicited.

UNSC and ICC Patern(al)ship in the Praxis of the R2P: Insights from Darfur and Libya

Jide Martyns Okeke • May 17 2012 • Articles

Questions must be raised about ostensible judicial activism and impropriety; the putative independence of the ICC in relation to the UNSC and, the direct involvement of the ICC in active conflicts especially in African states.

R2P: Seeking Perfection in an Imperfect World

Rodger Shanahan • Oct 7 2011 • Articles

While the development of R2P as a concept has been the preserve of international relations theoreticians (albeit ones with large amounts of practical experience), its implementation rests on the practitioners of the day. And these practitioners deal in the world of realpolitik with all of its inconsistencies, relativities and competing national interests.

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