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&
International Security
Legal Resource Center
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Contact: Stephen
M. Apatow
Founder,
Director of Research & Development
Humanitarian
Resource Institute (UN:NGO:DESA)
Humanitarian University
Consortium Graduate Studies
Center
for Medicine, Veterinary Medicine & Law
Phone:
203-668-0282
Email:
s.m.apatow@humanitarian.net
Internet:
www.humanitarian.net
In the context of international security and role of the
United Nations Security Council:
"Perhaps the weakest
area of the rule of law now concerns the
issue of enforcement. It is a truism that international law lacks the
police
functions that are found in domestic legal systems -- it is instead
a system that still relies largely upon self-help
when it comes to enforcement. The ability of the UN Security Council to
perform
its enforcement responsibilities under the Charter is limited by its
need
to operate in consensus and by its practical inability to order
enforcement actions, especially involving the use of military force,
against one of its permanent members." -- Dhanapala,
International Law, Security, and Weapons of Mass Destruction,
Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs, United Nations, 2002
Spring Meeting of the Section of International Law and Practice
American Bar Association.
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