Friday, May 16, 2008

Cronin & Hurd: The UN Security Council and the Politics of International Authority

Bruce Cronin (City College of New York - Political Science) & Ian Hurd (Northwestern Univ. - Political Science) have published The UN Security Council and the Politics of International Authority (Routledge 2008). Contents include:
  • Bruce Cronin & Ian Hurd, Introduction
  • Ian Hurd, Theories and Tests of International Authority
  • Erik Voeten, Delegation and the Nature of Security Council Authority
  • Bruce Cronin, International Consensus and the Changing Legal Authority of the Security Council
  • Ian Johnstone, The Security Council as Legislature
  • George Andropolous, The Security Council and the Challenges and Perils of Normative Overstretch
  • Wayne Sandholtz, Creating Authority by the Council: The International Criminal Tribunals
  • Jonathan Graubart, NGOs and the Security Council: Authority All Around But For Whose Interest?
  • Mitushi Das & Jean Krasno, The Uniting for Peace Resolution and Other Ways of Circumventing the Authority of the Security Council
  • Bruce Cronin & Ian Hurd, Assessing the Council’s Authority