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5. Institutionalising Morality: The UN Security Council and the Fundamental Norms of the International Legal Order

verfasst von : Dennis R. Schmidt

Erschienen in: International Organization in the Anarchical Society

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Abstract

This chapter considers the relationship between international law and the role and practice of the UN Security Council. Proceeding from the assumption that all international organizations are constituted, constrained, and empowered by the fundamental moral principles of the international legal order, it explores the way in which the norms of jus cogens have shaped the Security Council’s institutional environment and practice. It suggests that as a manifestation of the moral principles of international law, jus cogens norms have forged and defined the SC beyond the legal framework set out in the UN Charter. At the same time, it shows that the content and relevance of jus cogens itself have been shaped through Security Council successes and failures.

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Vorheriges Kapitel Institutional Constraints and Institutional Tensions in the Reform of the UN Security Council
Nächstes Kapitel International Sanctions as a Primary Institution of International Society
Fußnoten
1
For the foundational texts on the concept of jus cogens, see Alfred Verdross (1937, 1966).
 
2
For a detailed discussion of the concept and identification of institutions in English School theory, see Barry Buzan (2004, 2014).
 
3
See Knudsen (Chap. 2 in this volume) who identifies six institutions that are considered to be constitutive of international society: sovereignty, the balance of power, diplomacy, international law, great power management, and war.
 
4
See also Hedley Bull (1977, 135–36).
 
5
I share Clark’s (2005) concern that accounts that juxtapose the existence and application of international law with the existence of international society are logically problematic for various reasons, not at least because international law itself is typically purported as one of international society’s fundamental institutions. Yet, there seems to be no doubt that the existence of international society as an ontological entity is inextricably linked to the emergence of an international public legal order. In this sense, international law does hold a distinct place among all of international society’s institutions.
 
6
Max Huber, who provides the basic text on the sociology of international law, was among the first writers to show that the relationship between law and the sociopolitical environment in which it operates is closer in the international than in the domestic realm, for states are the subjects and creators of law.
 
7
As John Dulles (1950, 194) once remarked: ‘The Security Council is not a body that merely enforces agreed law. It is law unto itself’.
 
8
For a good overview of the UN Security Council’s legal framing and role in the international legal order, see Ian Hurd (2014).
 
9
Necessity refers to judgements about whether a situation requires the use of military force; proportionality relates to the level and extent of force required to achieve the restoration of peace.
 
10
It is important to note that while all peremptory norms are said to contain obligations erga omnes, not all erga omnes obligations derive from peremptory norms (e.g. De Wet 2013).
 
11
There is a broad agreement among international layers that the Council is bound by jus cogens norms, see, for example, Orakhelashvili (2005), Weiß (2008), Tomuschat (2015), and Costello and Foster (2016).
 
12
The Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties 1986 confirms that international organizations are bound by jus cogens.
 
13
One possible objection against this view is Article 103, which stipulates that UN Charter obligations prevail over any other rule of international law. However, their international lawyers are clear that Article 103 cannot be read in a way that leaves the Security Council’s decisions to its political discretion (Tomuschat 2015).
 
14
Although, according to Article 34(1) of the Statute of the ICJ, only states may be parties in cases before the court, the ICJ can be asked to review the legality of Security Council resolutions in cases in which interstate justiciable disputes involve measures adopted by the Council.
 
15
UN doc. GA Resolution 60/1, 16 September 2005.
 
16
UN doc. GA Resolution 60/1, 16 September 2005.
 
17
The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic was established on 22 August 2011 by the Human Rights Council through Resolution S-17/1 adopted at its 17th special session with a mandate to investigate all alleged violations of international human rights law since March 2011 in the Syrian Arab Republic.
 
18
For a comprehensive collection of essays assessing the role of human rights in the UN Security Council, see Jared Genser and Bruno Stagno Ugarte (2014).
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Institutionalising Morality: The UN Security Council and the Fundamental Norms of the International Legal Order
verfasst von
Dennis R. Schmidt
Copyright-Jahr
2019
Verlag
Springer International Publishing
Buch
International Organization in the Anarchical Society

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-71621-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-71622-0

Copyright-Jahr: 2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71622-0_5

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