The Procedure of the UN Security Council
Sam Daws author Loraine Sievers author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Published:11th Sep '14
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
The Procedure of the UN Security Council is the definitive book of its kind and has been widely used by UN practitioners and scholars for nearly 40 years. This comprehensively revised edition contains over 450 pages of new material documenting the extensive and rapid innovations in the Council's procedures of the past two decades. A one-stop handbook and guide, with meticulous referencing, this book has served diplomats, UN staff and scholars alike in providing unique insight into the inside workings of the world's preeminent body for the maintenance of international peace and security. Thoroughly grounded in the history and politics of the Council, it brings to life the ways the Council has responded through its working methods to a changing world. The book explains the Council's role in its wider UN Charter context and examines its relations with other UN organs and with its own subsidiary bodies. This includes the remarkable expansion in UN peacekeeping, peacebuilding and political missions, sanctions and counter-terrorism bodies, and international legal tribunals. It contains detailed analysis of voting and decision-taking by the Council, as well as the place, format, and conduct of meetings. It also seeks to illuminate the personalities behind the Council's work - ranging from the diplomats who sit on the Council itself to the UN Secretary-General, and those outside the Council affected by its decisions. It concludes with reflections on the improvements that have made to the Council's procedures over many decades, and the scope for further reform.
The fourth edition . . . is an authoritative compilation of the work of the Council, and thereby serves as a kind of guide to the efforts of the international community, over almost 70 years, to maintain world peace. The volume documents the Councils attempts, in the face of new and novel crises and conflicts, to develop a work practice and a toolkit in order to properly fulfil its Charter mandate. . . . The [book will] quickly become established as a standard reference for practitioners and academicians. * Vereinte Nationen, German Review on the United Nations *
The book covers almost everything ... the accompanying website is a real gold mine. It is used to keep the book continuously updated. These updates, which appear frequently, are linked to specific sections in the book. If you want, you can print them out and insert them into the book. When you subscribe to the alert service, it is almost as if you are witnessing the continuous process of evolution of the Councils procedures, and of the books content. You feel as if you are witnessing the fifth edition in the making. * Otto Spijkers, Academic Council on the United Nations System *
The book successfully makes the councils work plain to interested readers, be it scholar, student, diplomat or journalist. Its a surprisingly uncomplicated, highly readable book, compared with the usual scholarly works on the UN, written in academic jargon...The book is like its predecessors a unique source of information. It is highly recommended to all interested in the UN, as appreciating the important changes can play a key role in building support for the councils work in maintaining international peace. * Helmut Volger, PassBlue (website) *
For a 744-page book that deals with procedure, it is a highly readable tome written in a non-scholarly fashion that combines the rigor of an academic text with the prose of a journalist. * Denis Fitzgerald, UN Tribune *
ISBN: 9780199685295
Dimensions: 248mm x 180mm x 59mm
Weight: 1470g
744 pages
4th Revised edition