The Security Council as Administrator of Justice?
Reflections on the Antagonistic Relationship between Power and Law
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Beschreibung
The present analysis concludes the International Progress
Organization’s research project on the mandate and role of
the United Nations Security Council under the conditions of
the post-Cold War world order. The author questions the legal
basis of the ad hoc tribunals for Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and
Lebanon; he further evaluates the relationship between the
Security Council and the International Criminal Court and
makes an assessment of the quasi-judicial role of the supreme
executive organ of the United Nations in matters of international
terrorism. In view of the Security Council’s arrogated
powers as “administrator of justice,” the author asks whether
the international rule of law can be reconciled at all with the
imperatives of power politics.
The present analysis concludes the International Progress
Organization’s research project on the mandate and role of
the United Nations Security Council under the conditions of
the post-Cold War world order. The author questions the legal
basis of the ad hoc tribunals for Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and
Lebanon; he further evaluates the relationship between the
Security Council and the International Criminal Court and
makes an assessment of the quasi-judicial role of the supreme
executive organ of the United Nations in matters of international
terrorism. In view of the Security Council’s arrogated
powers as “administrator of justice,” the author asks whether
the international rule of law can be reconciled at all with the
imperatives of power politics.
Autor*in
Hans Köchler