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Edited by Shirley V. Scott and Charlotte Ku, this forward-looking
book examines the scope and options for the United Nations Security
Council to respond to climate insecurity. A cross-disciplinary team
of experts addresses the range of political and legal
considerations involved, including, the scope for adapting existing
Council tools to address the challenge of climate change, the
legality and legitimacy of doing so, the attitude of the P5 and EU,
and Council action to date. Specific tools considered include
establishing an international court or tribunal, targeted
sanctions, peace missions, and ?legislation?. The starting
assumption is that, given the futures projected by climate
scientists and the responsibility of the Council for international
peace and security, the Council will almost inevitably take its
place as a key player in climate governance. Contributors therefore
focus on the question of just how the Council will be able to most
constructively contribute to effective climate governance and how
it can begin to prepare for such a role. This book will be of great
value to scholars investigating the governance of climate change.
For activists and government officials the book provides high
quality research that can be drawn upon to give background to
debate, and inform future policy.
International Relations and International Law have developed in
parallel but distinctly throughout the 20th Century. However in
recent years there has been a recognition that their shared
concerns in areas as diverse as the environment, transnational
crime and terrorism, human rights and conflict resolution outweigh
their disciplinary and methodological divergences. Law scholars
have perhaps discovered the importance of understanding the
behavior of actions in the international legal system and
international relations scholars have re-discovered that
objectives, including normative objectives, might influence choices
and condition behavior. This new interest coincides with a general
broadening of cross-disciplinary interests into history, sociology,
philosophy, psychology, and economics for law and similar
developments in international relations. The distinctive rationale
for inquiry remains for both fields of study, but the need to move
beyond description only in the case of law or analysis only in the
case of politics has also fueled a need for new methodologies to
understand the changing phenomenon of international life today.
This book focuses on collaborative work within the disciplines of
international law and international relations, to note sample
efforts to collaborate, and to assess the cultivation of an
interdisciplinary outlook.
International Relations and International Law have developed in
parallel but distinctly throughout the 20th Century. However in
recent years there has been recognition that their shared concerns
in areas as diverse as the environment, transnational crime and
terrorism, human rights and conflict resolution outweigh their
disciplinary and methodological divergences. This concise and
accessible volume focuses on collaborative work within the
disciplines of international law and international relations, and
highlights the need to develop this collaboration further,
describing the value for individuals, states, IGOs, and other
non-state actors in being able to draw on the cross-pollination of
international relations and international legal scholarship. This
book: examines how different elements of governance are interacting
and shifting from one actor to another analyses the cumulative
effect of these shifts, and evaluates how they both enhance and
challenge the worlds governing capacity considers how the
characteristics of an architecture for a globalized governance are
emerging. Helping readers to examine and understand how accumulated
actions over time have given rise to system-wide changes, this work
is essential reading for all students of international law,
international relations and global governance.
Paul F. Diehl and Charlotte Ku's new framework for international
law divides it into operating and normative systems. The authors
provide a theory of how these two systems interact, which explains
how changes in one system precipitate changes and create capacity
in the other. A punctuated equilibrium theory of system evolution,
drawn from studies of biology and public policy studies, provides
the basis for delineating the conditions for change and helps
explain a pattern of international legal change that is often
infrequent and sub-optimal, but still influential.
Paul F. Diehl and Charlotte Ku's new framework for international
law divides it into operating and normative systems. The authors
provide a theory of how these two systems interact, which explains
how changes in one system precipitate changes and create capacity
in the other. A punctuated equilibrium theory of system evolution,
drawn from studies of biology and public policy studies, provides
the basis for delineating the conditions for change and helps
explain a pattern of international legal change that is often
infrequent and sub-optimal, but still influential.
The spread of democracy to a majority of the world's states and the legitimization of the use of force by multilateral institutions such as NATO and the UN have been two key developments since World War II. In the last decade these developments have become intertwined, as multilateral forces moved from traditional peacekeeping to peace enforcement among warring parties. This book explores the experiences of nine countries (Canada, France, Germany, India, Japan, Norway, Russia, UK and US) in the deployment of armed forces under the UN and NATO, asking who has been and should be accountable to the citizens of these nations, and to the citizens of states who are the object of deployments, for the decisions made in the such military actions. The authors conclude that national-level mechanisms have been most important in assuring democratic accountability of national and international decision-makers.
The spread of democracy to a majority of the world's states and the legitimization of the use of force by multilateral institutions such as NATO and the UN have been two key developments since World War II. In the last decade these developments have become intertwined, as multilateral forces moved from traditional peacekeeping to peace enforcement among warring parties. This book explores the experiences of nine countries (Canada, France, Germany, India, Japan, Norway, Russia, UK and US) in the deployment of armed forces under the UN and NATO, asking who has been and should be accountable to the citizens of these nations, and to the citizens of states who are the object of deployments, for the decisions made in the such military actions. The authors conclude that national-level mechanisms have been most important in assuring democratic accountability of national and international decision-makers.
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