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Managing risk to global stability: a new-found role for the UN Security Council?

Volker Roeben, Volker Roben Orcid Logo

International Law Today: New Challenges and Need for Reform?, Pages: 51 - 91

Swansea University Author: Volker Roben Orcid Logo

Abstract

Argues that the contemporary role of the UN Security has shifted to global risks, such as proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, international terrorism, rather than traditional transborder international conflicts. Develops a concomitant model for action of the SC on these risks.

Published in: International Law Today: New Challenges and Need for Reform?
Published: Berlin Heidelberg Springer 2008
Online Access: http://www.springer.com/law/international/book/978-3-540-75204-2?changeHeader
URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa5066
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Abstract: Argues that the contemporary role of the UN Security has shifted to global risks, such as proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, international terrorism, rather than traditional transborder international conflicts. Develops a concomitant model for action of the SC on these risks.
Keywords: Public international Law, Collective security, UN Charter
College: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Start Page: 51
End Page: 91