The United Nations and targeted killings: between geopolitics and legitimacy

الموضوعات

سياسة

الملخص

This thesis seeks to examine the role of the United Nations (UN) as the preeminent legitimator of international policy. It does so through the exploration of the ‘targeted killings’ policy within the context of the ‘terrorism’ debate of the past decade, and its place within international law and norms. It examines various sources of the UN’s authority and reviews the process through which it gains legitimacy. It also highlights the key struggle within the UN between the influence of geo-politics--as represented largely via the debates within the Security Council (SC)--and its ability to confer legitimacy, in particular via the General Assembly (GA) and the various bodies, committees and individuals such as the Special Rapporteurs, all of which report to it. This thesis uses the cases of the Israeli ‘targeted killings’ in Tunisia (1988) and the US drone wars (2004-mid 2013) in order to illustrate this struggle. The thesis concludes that while the UN as a whole has not legitimized the Israeli policies of ‘targeted killings’ or the US drone wars, as the imperatives of geopolitics would suggest, it has also not specifically declared them illegal or illegitimate following the work of the Special Rapporteur. It also notes that the example of the US drone-wars exemplifies the very need for the UN’s legitimizing power within the context of what Richard Falk refers to as the ‘legitimacy wars’.

روابط وملفات

التعريف والنوع

رقم الوثيقة

026e602a-53c2-47b8-876b-7811e96e32ee

رقم العقد

0

نوع الوسائط

Crawler

نوع المحتوى

الرسائل العلمية

صيغة المصدر

رسائل ماجيستير

نوع الملف

pdf text

أسماء الملفات

1634767_1.pdf

بيانات النشر

ألقاب المؤلفين

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اللغة

English

المصدر والدورية

اسم المصدر

The United Nations and targeted killings: between geopolitics and legitimacy

المحتوى والصفحات

عدد الصفحات

0

إشراف وإعداد

الإعداد

Daniel Ribár

الاقتباسات الببليوغرافية