At present no war is being fought in SEE. However this outward tranquility was imposedfrom outside through energetic military interventions by the West, the establishment of international military and security protectorates over parts of the region, as well as by stationing peace-keeping troops, international police, armed and unarmed foreign observers at the hottest trouble spots in SEE. The s...

This essay provides an overview of the way in which regions and regional institutions have become increasingly important in debates about international security, making it possible to speak of a ‘regional dimension of global security’. After discussing some of the regional sources of insecurity past and present, and introducing the debate about the so-called ‘regionalization of security’, it fo...

the united nations has a multiplex criminal policy to fight against genocide, judicial criminal policy being one of the aspects of this policy. rationally, justice requires that the guilty of genocidal acts be punished, the means of redress be provided for victims of such crimes and finally, the international peace and security be established. un judicial criminal policy regarding genocide is r...

despite its matchless impact and age-old functioning in the establishment of peace all through the history, the theory of natural law remains neglected among the popular theories at the international level. domination of legal positivism, and schools of its like, has always blocked any natural healing to the ailing condition of the contemporary international system, hence some artificial and fe...

The Nonproliferation Review/Fall 1996 30 Dr. Bates Gill heads the Project on Security and Arms Control in East Asia at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Kensuke Ebata is a member of the Japanese Security Export Control Committee and a defense and military affairs consultant in Tokyo. Matthew Stephenson is a scholar in the East Asian Studies Department at Harvard University a...

Dr. Wade L. Huntley is a visiting fellow at the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley. His publications on a variety of Asian and global security issues include articles in The Nonproliferation Review, Asian Survey, International Studies Quarterly, and Millennium: Journal of International Affairs. Dr. Huntley, formerly Director of the Peace and Security Program at ...

this book deals with the evolution of the sanctions policy of the security council arisen as a solution to the problem of disastrous effects of the comprehensive economic sanctions on the civilian populations of the target states. the study shows that the key for resolving the conflict arisen between the purposes of the charter: maintenance of the peace and promoting respect for human rights, l...