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The Chapter VII Powers of the United Nations Security Council
This study provides a comprehensive analysis of the questions pertaining to the powers of the Security Council under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations. In doing so it departs from the premise that an analysis of the limitations to the powers of the Security Council and an analysis of judicial review of such limitations by the ICJ, respectively, are inter-dependent. On the one hand, judicial review would only become relevant if and to the extent that the powers granted to the Security Council under Chapter VII of the Charter are subject to justiciable limitations. On the other hand, the relevance of any limitation to the powers of the Security Council would remain limited if it could not be enforced by judicial review. This inter-dependence is reflected by the fact that Chapters 2 and 3 focus on judicial review in advisory and contentious proceedings, respectively, whereas Chapters 4 to 9 examine the limits to the powers of the Security Council. The concluding chapter subsequently illuminates how the respective limits to the Security Council’s enforcement powers could be enforced by judicial review. It also explores an alternative mode of review of binding Security Council decisions that could complement judicial review by the ICJ, notably the right of states to reject illegal Security Council decisions as a ‘right of last resort’. The space and attention devoted to the limits to the Security Council’s enforcement powers reflects the second aim of this study, namely to provide new direction to this aspect of the debate on the Security Council’s powers under Chapter VII of the Charter. It does so by paying particular attention to the role of human rights norms in limiting the type of enforcement measures that the Security Council can resort to in order to maintain or restore international peace and security.
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The UN Secretary-General and the Security Council : a dynamic relationship
This volume fills an important lacuna in the scholarship on the UN system. Although there exists today an impressive body of literature on the development and significance of the Secretariat and the Security Council as separate organs, an important gap remains in our understanding of the interactions between them. Bringing together some of the most prominent authorities on the subject, this volume is the first book-length treatment of this topic. It studies the UN from an innovative angle, creating new insights on the (autonomous) policy-making of international organizations, and adds to our understanding of the dynamics of intra-organizational relationships.-- Publisher's website.
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The End of Victory
The End of Victory recounts
the costs of failure in nuclear war through the work of the most
secret deliberative body of the National Security Council, the Net
Evaluation Subcommittee (NESC). From 1953 onward, US
leaders wanted to know as precisely as possible what would happen
if they failed in a nuclear war-how many Americans would die and
how much of the country would remain. The NESC told Presidents
Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy what would be the result of
the worst failure of American strategy-a maximum-effort surprise
Soviet nuclear assault on the United States.
Edward Kaplan details how NESC studies provided key information
for presidential decisions on the objectives of a war with the USSR
and on the size and shape of the US military. The subcommittee
delivered its annual reports in a decade marked by crises in
Berlin, Quemoy and Matsu, Laos, and Cuba, among others. During
these critical moments and day-to-day containment of the USSR, the
NESC's reports offered the best estimates of the butcher's bill of
conflict and of how to reduce the cost in American lives.
Taken with the intelligence community's assessment of the
probability of a surprise attack, the NESC's work framed the risks
of US strategy in the chilliest years of the Cold War. The End
of Victory reveals how all policy decisions run risks-and ones
involving military force run grave ones-though they can rarely be
known with precision.
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Key documents on the reform of the UN Security Council 1991-2019
\"Key Documents on the Reform of the UN Security Council 1991-2019\" brings together primary source documents reflecting the political, legal and academic discussions about reform of the United Nations Security Council, in particular its membership and decision-making. The collection objectively reflects the various positions of all participants, including governments, UN bodies, universities and think tanks.
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Politics and IMF Conditionality
Bailouts sponsored by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are famous for their conditionality: in return for continued installments of desperately needed loans, governments must comply with austere policy changes. Many have suggested, however, that politically important countries face rather weak stringency. Obstacles to testing this hypothesis include finding a measure of political importance that is not plagued by endogeneity and obtaining data on IMF conditionality. We propose to measure political importance using temporary membership on the UN Security Council and analyze a newly available data set on the level of conditionality attached to (a maximum of) 314 IMF arrangements with 101 countries over the 1992–2008 period. We find a negative relationship: Security Council members receive about 30 percent fewer conditions. This suggests that the major shareholders of the IMF trade softer conditionality in return for political influence over the Security Council.
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Geopolitics, Aid, and Growth
We investigate the effects of short-term political motivations on the effectiveness of foreign aid. Specifically, we test whether the effect of aid on economic growth is reduced by the share of years a country served on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) in the period the aid is committed, which provides quasi-random variation in aid. Our results show that the effect of aid on growth is significantly lower when aid was committed during a country’s tenure on the UNSC. This holds when we restrict the sample to Africa, which follows the strictest norm of rotation on the UNSC and thus where UNSC membership can most reliably be regarded as exogenous. We derive two conclusions from this. First, short-term political favoritism reduces the effectiveness of aid. Second, results of studies using political interest variables as instruments for overall aid arguably estimate the effect of politically motivated aid and thus a lower bound for the effect of all aid.
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