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This book examines the effectiveness of multilateralism in ensuring
collective security and, in particular, the EU's role in this
process. In 1992, shortly after the end of the Cold War, a Security
Council Summit in New York reaffirmed the salience of the system of
collective security and stated the determination of the Heads of
State to maintain it as the prime international instrument for
preserving peace. Twenty years later, however, the record of
collective security as well as of multilateralism has not been very
encouraging. The system of collective security, as enshrined in the
United Nations (UN) Charter, failed repeatedly to accomplish its
mandate in the 1990s and has led to controversial debates in the
United States and Europe that reached a climax during the Iraq
crisis in 2002/03. The volume draws upon both theoretical and
empirical research to answer the following core questions: What are
the reasons that have made multilateralism either effective or
ineffective in the field of peacekeeping, peace preservation and
peacebuilding? How can multilateralism be made more effective? How
can attempts made by Europe to render UN multilateralism in the
security area more efficient be assessed? This book will be of much
interest to students of peacebuilding/peacekeeping, EU policy, the
UN, security studies and IR in general.
This book examines the effectiveness of multilateralism in ensuring
collective security and, in particular, the EU's role in this
process. In 1992, shortly after the end of the Cold War, a Security
Council Summit in New York reaffirmed the salience of the system of
collective security and stated the determination of the Heads of
State to maintain it as the prime international instrument for
preserving peace. Twenty years later, however, the record of
collective security as well as of multilateralism has not been very
encouraging. The system of collective security, as enshrined in the
United Nations (UN) Charter, failed repeatedly to accomplish its
mandate in the 1990s and has led to controversial debates in the
United States and Europe that reached a climax during the Iraq
crisis in 2002/03. The volume draws upon both theoretical and
empirical research to answer the following core questions: What are
the reasons that have made multilateralism either effective or
ineffective in the field of peacekeeping, peace preservation and
peacebuilding? How can multilateralism be made more effective? How
can attempts made by Europe to render UN multilateralism in the
security area more efficient be assessed? This book will be of much
interest to students of peacebuilding/peacekeeping, EU policy, the
UN, security studies and IR in general.
The growth in scope and importance of the private military and
security industry in the past decade has challenged the role of the
state as the main provider of defence and security functions. At
the same time it has put under stress the state's authority to
properly oversee the conduct of private contractors and has raised
the question of whether existing rules of domestic law and
international law are adequate to ensure their accountability in
the event of abuse. This book addresses this question through the
lens of international human rights law and international
humanitarian law. It presents a systematic analysis of the way in
which these two bodies of international law, applicable in times of
peace and in the event of armed conflict, may be interpreted and
implemented in a way so as to fill possible accountability gaps.
Human rights and humanitarian law obligations are analysed from the
point of view of their applicability to the states involved, to
international organizations, and to the companies and their
individual employees. Victims' access to civil remedies and the
criminal prosecution of private contractors, as well as new policy
issues, such as the use of private contractors in the fight against
piracy, are also covered in the book.
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