The United States and the Security Council: Collective Security since the Cold War

by Frederking; Brian

• ISBN13: 9780415770750
• ISBN10: 0415770750
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2007-11-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book describes the rules governing international security decision-making and examines the different understandings of collective security in the post-Cold War world. The post-Cold War world has largely been a struggle over which rules govern global security. Discussions and decisions following the events of 9/11 have highlighted differences and disputes in the United Nations Security Council. Where Russia, China, and France prefer ?procedural? collective security, in which all enforcement attempts must be explicitly authorized by the Security Council, the US and Britain prefer ?substantive? collective security, in which particular countries can sometimes take it upon themselves to enforce the rules of the global community. Using a constructivist theory of global security to analyze a series of case studies on Iraq (1990-91); Somalia, Rwanda, and Haiti; Bosnia and Kosovo; Afghanistan and Iraq (2003), the author demonstrates how competing interpretations of collective security recur.Challenging the claim that 9/11 fundamentally changed world politics, Brian Frederking argues that the events exacerbated already existing tensions between the veto powers of the UN Security Council. The United States and the Security Council will be of interest to students and researchers of American foreign policy, security studies and international organizations.

Table of Contents

The rules of global security	p. 5
Visions of collective security	p. 23
Peacekeeping	p. 41
Economic sanctions	p. 61
The use of force	p. 78
International tribunals	p. 93
The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction	p. 105
Human rights	p. 126
Terrorism	p. 155
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