The Justification of Responsibility in the Un Security Council: Practices of Normative Ordering in International Relations

ISBN-13: 9781138569898 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 248 str.

Holger Niemann

Opis

Frequently the UN Security Council is accused of failing its objectives for maintaining international peace and security, but this book argues that instead of undermining the legitimacy of the Council, processes of contestation, politicisation and delegitimation can be productive in international organisations such as the Security Council.

Spis treści

List of figures and tables  List of abbreviations  Acknowledgments  1. Introduction  2. The changing meaning of Security Council responsibility  3. Approaching normative controversy  4. The moment of justification: pragmatist sociology and the turn to practice  5. Practices of normative ordering during the 2002/2003 Iraq crisis   6. Practices of normative ordering during the 2011/2012 Syria crisis  7. Public Security Council meetings from a practice theory perspective  8. Conclusion  Appendix

O autorze

Holger Niemann is a researcher at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH). He is also an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Development and Peace at the University of Duisburg-Essen (INEF) and holds a PhD in political science.