Collective security : theory, law and practice /

This analysis of collective security covers its institutional, operational and legal parameters along with the United Nations system, presenting it as a global public order institution for maintaining peace. The authors study its constitutional premises as they are shaped by the forces of law and po...

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Main Author: Tsagourias, Nikolaos K.
Other Authors: White, Nigel D., 1961-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • I. The concept of collective security
  • Collective security : a historical journey
  • The morphology of collective security
  • Triggers, actors and institutions
  • II. Collective security components
  • States and collective security
  • The United Nations
  • Regional organisations
  • Private military and security companies
  • III. Collective security tools
  • The settlement of disputes and preventive security
  • State-building
  • Sanctions
  • Military security
  • IV. Legal management of collective security
  • Law as internal facilitator, regulator or constraint
  • Law as external facilitator, regulator or constraint
  • The management of normative conflicts
  • V. Accountability in collective security
  • Accountability in collective security
  • International responsibility and liability
  • Individual criminal responsibility.