Council Unbound: The Growth of UN Decision Making on Conflict and Postconflict Issues After the Cold War

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US Institute of Peace Press, 2006 - Law - 422 pages
Examines the UN Security Council's new, expansive exercise of legal authority in the post-Cold War period and its devising of bold and innovative methods--coercive and noncoercive--to stop nascent wars and "threats to the peace," including international terrorism.

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Contents

THE FRAMEWORK FOR COUNCIL ACTION II
11
JURISDICTION AND MANDATE
41
SANCTIONS
65
UN PEACEKEEPING AND GOVERNANCE
99
THE USE OF FORCE
131
UN TECHNICAL COMMISSIONS
167
PROSECUTION OF CRIMES
199
CONCLUSION
233
Criminal Tribunals
267
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Michael J. Matheson was principal deputy legal adviser to the U.S. Department of State during 1990-2000, and acting legal adviser during substantial parts of that period. Currently he is a member of the international law faculty of the George Washington University School of Law in Washington, D.C. and a member of the UN International Law Commission. He is also on the board of editors of the American Journal of International Law and the executive council of the American Society of International Law. He was a senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace during 2001-2002.

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