1. | White, Nigel : The United Nations system, 2002 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph The United Nations system : toward international justice / White, Nigel, xi, 335 p.. - Boulder : Lynne Rienner, 2002. ISBN 1-58826-070-4 LANGUAGE: ENG ABSTRACT: Contents:. PART 1 : THE LEGAL NATURE OF THE UN. 1. A UN System. 2. Evolutionary Elements of the Legal Order. 3. The UN's Values. PART 2 : THE INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK. 4. The Political Organs: Power and Accountability. 5. The Legal Organs: Accountability and the Rule of Law. PART 3 : IMPLEMENTATION AND PROTECTION. 6. Peace and Security. 7. Support for Democracy. 8. International Criminal Justice. 9. Human Rights. 10. The Environment. 11. Economic and Development Matters. 12. Summary and Conclusion INDEX WORDS:
NOTE (GENERAL): UN charter; Biological diversity convention; Agenda 21; Chicago convention; CRC; Friendly relations declaration; Geneva conventions; Genocide convention; Convention concerning the indigenous and tribal peoples in independent countries (ILO convention no. 169); Vienna convention on the law of treaties; Vienna declaration on human rights; UDHR;
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2. | Franck, Thomas M. : Recourse to force, 2002 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph Recourse to force : state action against threats and armed attacks / Franck, Thomas M., xii, 205 p.. - Cambridge : Cambridge U. P., 2002. ISBN 0-521-82013-8 LANGUAGE: ENG ABSTRACT: CONTENTS:. 1. The UN’s capacity for adapting to radical changes of circumstance. 2. Use of force by the United Nations. 3. The original parameters of self-defence. 4. Self-defence against state-sponsored terrorists and infiltrators. 5. Self-defence against ideological subversion. 6. Self-defence against attacks on citizens abroad. 7. Anticipatory self-defence. 8. Countermeasures and self-help. 9. The ‘purely humanitarian’ intervention. 10. What, eat the cabin boy? Uses of force that are illegal but justifiable. INDEX WORDS:
GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS: Isarel / Egypt / Dominican Republic / Lebanon / USA / Nicaragua / Turkey / Iraq / Hungary / Czechoslovakia / USSR / Belgium / Congo / Cyprus / Uganda / Grenada / Libya / Panama / Afghanistan / Argentina / India / Portugal / Morocco / Indonesia / East Timor / United Kingdom / Bangladesh / Tanzania / Uganda / France / Yugoslavia LOCAL GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS: Falklands Malvinas Kosovo NOTE (GENERAL): UN charter;
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3. | Simma, Bruno (ed.) : The charter of the United Nations , 2002 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph The charter of the United Nations : a commentary / Simma, Bruno (ed.) ; in collab. with Hermann Mosler ... [et al.]. - 2. ed.., lxiv, 1405 p.. - Oxford : Oxford U. P., 2002. ISBN 0-19-924449-9 LANGUAGE: ENG ABSTRACT: CONTENTS:. Volume I: The Interpretation of the Cha rter. CHAPTER I : Purposes and Definitions. CHAPTER II: Membership. CHAPTER III : Organs. CHAPTER IV : The General Assembly. CHAPTER V : The Security Council. CHAPTER VI : Pacific Settlement of Disputes. CHAPTER VII : Action with Respect to Threats to the Peace, Breaches of the Peace, and Acts of Aggression. CHAPTER VIII : Regional Arrangements. Volume II :. CHAPTER IX : International Economic and Social Co-operation. CHAPTER X : The Economic and Social Council. CHAPTER XI : Declaration regarding Non-Self-Governing Territories. CHAPTER XII : International Trusteeship System: CHAPTER XIII : The Trusteeship Council. CHAPTER XIV : The International Court of Justice. CHAPTER XV : The Secretariat. CHAPTER XVI : Miscellaneous Provisions. CHAPTER XVII : Transitional Security Arrangements. CHAPTER XVIII : Amendments. CHAPTER XIX : Ratification and Signature Rules of Procedure of the General Assembly. Table of Cases Index INDEX WORDS:
NOTE (GENERAL): UN charter; Covenant of League of Nations; CAT; CERD; ICESCR; CEDAW; ICCPR; LIBRARY LOCATION: IMR SHELF CODE: Inst.ref. |
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4. | Österdahl, Inger : Threat to the peace, 1998 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph series Threat to the peace : the interpretation by the Security Council of article 39 of the UN charter / Österdahl, Inger - (Swedish Institute of International Law : studies in international law ; vol. 13), 176 p.. - Uppsala : Iustus förlag, 1998. - ISSN 0348-4718 ISBN 91-7678-373-1 LANGUAGE: ENG ABSTRACT: CONTENTS: Abbreviations. 1. Introduction. 2. Issues. 2.1 The notion of "threat to the peace" in Article 39 of the UN Charter. 2.11 International or domestic threat?. 2.1.2 A wide interpretation - advantages and drawbacks. 2.2 The competence of the Security Council. 2.2.1 The mandate of the Security Council. 2.2.2 The protection of peace versus human rights. 2.2.3 Forms of action available to the Security Council. 2.3 Domestic jurisdiction and i nternational law. 2.3.1 Article 2(7) and Article 39. 2.3.2 Human rights and democracy - internal or international affairs?. 2.4 The international and the intranational in international law and international relations theory. 3. Cases. 3.1 Congo, Southern Rhodesia, South Africa. 3.2 The Kurds and Shiites in Iraq. 3.3 The former Yugoslavia. 3.4 Somalia. 3.5 Liberia. 3.6 Angola. 3.7 Rwanda. 3.8 Haiti. 3.9 Burundi. 3.10 Zaire (now the Democratic Republ ic of Congo). 3.11 Albanla. 3.12 Libya and Sudan. 3.13 Analytic summary of cases. 4. The issues through the cases. 4.1 What is a threat to the peace'. ?. 4.2 The limit~ of the mandate of the Security Council. 4.3 Potential domination by permanent member(s). 4.4 Arbitrary or coherent interpretation of "threat to the peace"?. 4.5 The Security Council as law enforcer. 4.6 The consequences of Security Council practice for the position of human rights and democracy in international law. 4.7 Intervention through authorization. 5. Looking ahead. INDEX WORDS:
GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS: Algeria / Central African Republic / Germany / Japan / Sierra Leone / Rwanda / United Kingdom / Haiti / Liberia LOCAL GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS: Srebrenica NOTE (GENERAL): UN charter; Agena for peace; Dayton peace agreement; |
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5. | Conforti, Benedetto : The law and practice of the United Nations, 2005 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph series The law and practice of the United Nations / Conforti, Benedetto. - 3. rev. ed.. - (Legal aspects of international organization ; vol. 42), xvi, 328 p.. - Leiden : Martinus Nijhoff publ., 2005. ISBN 90-04-14309-2 LANGUAGE: ENG ABSTRACT: Table of Contents Preface. Abbreviations. General Bibliography. Introduction. 1. The Membership. Section I: Acquisition of Membership Status.Section II: Modifications in Membership Status. 2. The Organs. Section I: The Security Council. Section II: The General Assembly. Section III: The Secretariat. IV: The Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council. Section V: The International Court of Justice. 3. The Functions. Section I: General Limits to United Nations Functions. Section II: Maintenance of the Peace: Functions of the Security Council. Section III: Maintenance of the Peace: the Functions of the General Assembly. Section IV: Maintenance of the Peace: The Functions of the Secretary-General. Section V: Maintenance of the Peace and Regional Organizations. Section VI: Economic Co-operation and Action for Development.Section VII: The Protection of Human Rights. Section VIII: De-colonisation and Self-Determination of Peoples. Section IX: Registration of Treaties. Section X: The Judicial Functions. Section XI: Financing the Organization. 4. The Acts. Analytical Index. INDEX WORDS:
GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS: Afghanistan / Albania / Angola / Austria / Belize / Benin / Bolivia / Burundi / Bulgaria / Cambodia / Central Africa / Chile / China / Congo / Cuba / Cyprus / Czechoslovakia / East Timor / El Salvador / Eritrea / Ethiopia / Falkland Islands / Georgia / Greece / Grenada / Haiti / Honduras / Hungary / India / Indonesia / Iran / Iraq / Israel / Ivory Coast / Korea / Kuwait / laos / Lebanon / Libya / Macedonia / Malvinas / Mauritania / Mongolia / Namibia / Nicaragua / Nigeria / Pakistan / Palestine / Panama / Poland / Portugal / Rhodesia / Rwanda / Romania / Serbia Montenegro / Sierra Leone / Somalia / South africa / Sudan / Syria / Switzerland / Taiwan / Turkey / Turkmenistan / Ukraine / USSR / Western Sahara / yemen / Yugoslavia LOCAL GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS: Kosovo |
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6. | White, Nigel D. : The will and authority of the Security Council after Iraq, 2004 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: part of a serial The will and authority of the Security Council after Iraq / White, Nigel D. REFERENCE TO GENERIC UNIT (Periodica): Leiden journal of international law : vol. 17; no. 4., p. 645-672. - Cambridge : Cambridge U. P., 2004. - ISSN 0922-1565 LANGUAGE: ENG INDEX WORDS:
NOTE (GENERAL): UN charter; |
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7. | Bourantonis, Dimitris : The history and politics of UN Security Council reform, 2005 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph series The history and politics of UN Security Council reform / Bourantonis, Dimitris - (Routledge advances in international relations and global politics ; vol. 41), x, 134 p.. - London : Routledge, 2005. ISBN 0-415-30845-3 LANGUAGE: ENG ABSTRACT: Contents:. 1 The Security Council in 1945 and the quest for reform. The structure of the Security Council. Security Council: A case for adjustment. 2 Demands for reform in the Cold War era. The early years (1946-54). The rise of demands for an expansion of the Security Council (1955-6). Expansion becomes hostage of inter-issue bargaining (1957-1965). 1965 onward. 3 The post-Cold War case for reform. The new international setting and the impulse for reform. A de facto reform of the Security Council: Russia slips into the Soviet seat. 4 The Debate in the UN: 1992-5. Conditional support for Germany and Japan. Improving working practices as a means to diffuse pressure for substantial reform. The changing political context of the debate. 5 The debate in the UN: 1996-2000. The changing attitude of the permanent members. The Razali plan: A solution to the deadlock?. 6 Conclusions. INDEX WORDS:
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8. | Woelk, Jens (ed.) : Tolerance through law, 2008 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph Tolerance through law : self government and group rights in South Tyrol / Woelk, Jens (ed.) ; Palerno, Francesco ; Marko, Joseph, xiv, 420 p.. - Leiden : Martinus Nijhoff publ., 2008. ISBN 978-90-04-16302-7 LANGUAGE: ENG ABSTRACT: Editors’ preface:. Part I:Framework: Chapter 1: History of the South Tyrol Conflict and its Settlement Emma Lantschner; Chapter 2: Protection of Minorities under International Law and the Case of South Tyrol Roberta Medda-Windischer; Chapter 3: South Tyrol’s Special Status within the Italian Constitution Francesco Palermo. Part II: Self-Governance: Chapter 4: Institutions of Self-Government Giuseppe Avolio; Chapter 5: Legislative and Administrative Autonomy Leonhard Voltmer and Sara Parolari; Chapter 6:The Financial System of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano/Bozen Thomas Benedikter; Chapter 7: What it Means to be Special in Relations with the Central State: Institutions and Procedures Jens Woelk ; Chapter 8: Implementation and Amendment of the Autonomy Statute Francesco Palermo; Chapter 9: Cross-border Cooperation between Historical Legacies and New Horizons Alice Engl and Carolin Zwilling; Chapter 10: Regional Autonomies Providing Minority Rights and the Law of European Integration: Experiences from South Tyrol Gabriel N. Toggenburg. Part III: Minority Rights: Chapter 11: Individual and Group Rights in South Tyrol: Article 2 as Grundnorm of the Autonomy Statute Jens Woelk; Chapter 12: Quota System, Census and Declaration of Affiliation to a Linguistic Group Emma Lantschner and Giovanni Poggeschi; Chapter 13: The Educational System in South Tyrol Siegfried Baur and Roberta Medda-Windischer; Chapter 14: Linguistic Rights and the Use of Language Cristina Fraenkel-Haeberle; Chapter 15: A ‘Minority within a Minority’: the Special Status of the Ladin Valleys Günther Rautz; Chapter 16: South Tyrol’s Special Status in Civil Law: the ‘Entailed Farm’ and the ‘Grundbuch’ Systems Giovanni Poggeschi. Part IV: Lessons to be Learned: Chapter 17: South Tyrol’s Consociational Democracy: Between Political Claim and Social Reality Günther Pallaver; Chapter 18: Complex Power Sharing as Conflict Resolution: South Tyrol in Comparative Perspective Stefan Wolff; Chapter 19: Is there a South Tyrolean ‘Model’ of Conflict Resolution to be Exported? Joseph Marko; Appendix Alice Engl and Alexandra Tomaselli; Editors;The authors. INDEX WORDS:
GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS: Italy |