The UN Security Council and the Maintenance of Peace in a Changing World

Auteur
Congyan Cai is professor of international law at Fudan University, China. He engages international legal theory, foreign relations law, and Chinese international legal policies and practice. Professor Cai's recent books include The Rise of China and International Law (2019) and The Cambridge Handbook of China and International Law (Cambridge, 2024, co-editor). Larissa van den Herik is full professor at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies of Leiden University. She served as vice dean of Leiden Law School and previously chaired the ILA Study Group on UN Sanctions and International Law. Van den Herik is general editor of Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law, and of Leiden Journal of International Law. She is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and the Netherlands National Group.Tiyanjana Maluwa is the H. Laddie Montague Chair in Law and a professor of law and international affairs at Pennsylvania State University School of Law, as well as a member of the Institut de Droit International. Professor Maluwa's recent publications include The Pursuit of a Brave New World in International Law: Essays in Honour of John Dugard (2017, co-editor), and Dugard's International Law: A South African Perspective (2019).Anne Peters is a director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, a professor at Heidelberg, FU Berlin, and Basel, and a L. Bates Lea Global Law Professor at the University of Michigan. She is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration and an associate member of the Institut de Droit International.Christian Marxsen is a professor of International Law at Humboldt University of Berlin and a research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg.

Texte du rabat
"How can the Security Council maintain international peace in times of global polarisation and contestation about principles of international legal and political order? Three experts with diverse geographic, sociolegal, and ideational backgrounds present their views on the Council's functions and deficits, and on tensions and future trajectories"--

Contenu
Introduction: the Security Council's four defining fields of tensions Christian Marxsen; 1. The UN Security Council and the maintenance of peace in the global power shift Congyan Cai; 2. The UN Security Council reflections on institutional strength Larissa van den Herik; 3. The UN Security Council between centralism and regionalism Tiyanjana Maluwa; Conclusion: power, procedures, and periphery: the Security Council in the Ukraine war Anne Peters.