TY  - BOOK
AU  - Orakhelashvili,Alexander
TI  - Collective security
SN  - 9780199579846
AV  - JZ5588 .O73 2011
U1  - 341.72 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University  Press
KW  - Security, International
KW  - International cooperation
KW  - International relations
KW  - National security
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-376) and index; Introduction -- Essence and definition of collective security -- Collective security institutions -- The regime of competence allocation -- The identification of a threat -- Responses to threats -- Self-defence and collective security -- Peace operations -- Legal consequences of illegal collective security acts and decisions -- Conclusion
N2  - This is the first comprehensive study of the role, powers and functions of international institutions in the area of peace and security, including both inter-state wars and crises and intra-state situations such as civil wars and serious violations of the rights of individuals and peoples. It examines collective security as one single system consisting of the United Nations and regional security institutions, the foundation of which is laid in Chapter VIII of the UN Charter. The operation of this single system involves multiple ways of interaction between institutions, ranging from collaboration to confrontation. This study draws on the principles that determine the competence of collective security institutions and provide both the guidance for inter-institutional interaction and the criteria of legitimacy of decisions by the relevant institution. The treatment of this area, and of collective security as a whole, is premised on the consensual imperative that allows extending institutional powers only so far as states have delegated these powers to institutions. This impacts not only on which basis institutions can take action, but also the legal consequences of that action, including the issues of responsibility, judicial review, and implementation of institutional decisions by states--Publisher description
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