International Organizations’ Emergency Powers: Ratchet or Rollback?
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
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
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
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
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
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.
