All Outputs (48)

Countermeasures and sanctions (2024)
Book Chapter

The issue of enforcement by means of non-forcible measures is one of the least developed areas of international law. Two legal regimes are relatively clear—non- forcible countermeasures taken by States (countermeasures) and non-forcible measures take... Read More about Countermeasures and sanctions.

Strengthening democratic control of UK war powers in an age of remote and hybrid warfare: Policy brief (2024)
Report

Advanced Introduction to International Conflict and Security Law (2023)
Book

This updated and revised second edition of Advanced Introduction to International Conflict and Security Law provides a concise and insightful guide to the key principles of international law governing peacetime security, arms control, the use of forc... Read More about Advanced Introduction to International Conflict and Security Law.

The Security Council and Impartiality in the Peaceful Settlement of Disputes (2023)
Book Chapter

In this chapter, Nigel White assesses the contribution of the UN’s collective security system to the settlement of international disputes. This chapter tests the assumption that impartial law-based dispute settlement by the Security Council is neithe... Read More about The Security Council and Impartiality in the Peaceful Settlement of Disputes.

Protecting Human Rights in UN Peacekeeping: Operationalising Due Diligence and Accountability (2023)
Journal Article

The position of the European security architecture within the international legal order (2023)
Journal Article

With the universal architecture for peace and security centred upon the UN Charter of 1945 and the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) of 1968 being built on great power foundations, there are manifest problems when there is no consensus amongst those gre... Read More about The position of the European security architecture within the international legal order.

Military Justice and the Punishment of Atrocity Crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq (2023)
Book Chapter

The adjective ‘atrocity’ reflects the uniqueness of atrocity crimes and their separateness from normal criminal conduct. This chapter examines the distinction between ‘ordinary’ crimes and ‘atrocity crimes’ to provide a critical framework for the e... Read More about Military Justice and the Punishment of Atrocity Crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Military Justice: The Rights and Duties of Soldiers and Government (2022)
Book

Shades of Grey: Autonomous Sanctions in the International Legal Order (2021)
Book Chapter

The Security Council, Peace-making and Peace Settlement: Between Executive and Pragmatic (2021)
Book Chapter

In Search of Due Diligence Obligations in UN Peacekeeping Operations: Identifying Standards for Accountability (2020)
Journal Article

It is argued in this article that due diligence, grounded on positive duties under international human rights law, is a standard against which to measure the performance of UN peacekeeping forces. Its adoption by the UN will improve accountability, b... Read More about In Search of Due Diligence Obligations in UN Peacekeeping Operations: Identifying Standards for Accountability.

From Covenant to Charter: A Legacy Squandered? (2020)
Journal Article

The “Covenant” embodied the idea of a contract for peace in 1919. The “Charter” of 1945 appeared more boldly to embody a world constitution for peace. This article analyses the United Nations and its predecessor organisation, the League of Nations, t... Read More about From Covenant to Charter: A Legacy Squandered?.

Jam Tomorrow?: Implications for United Nations Human Rights Liability of the United States Supreme Court's Judgment on Immunity (2020)
Journal Article

The League of Nations, autonomy and collective security (2020)
Journal Article

This article tests the assumption that in institutional and legal design the League of Nations was incapable of providing collective security. The lens through which this issue is scrutinised is the concept of institutional legal autonomy, in other w... Read More about The League of Nations, autonomy and collective security.

Understanding nuclear deterrence within the international constitutional architecture (2019)
Book Chapter

Once they were created, and scientific knowledge spread, it has proved very difficult to remove nuclear weapons from the international security landscape. However, if the broader international constitutional architecture, which includes the UN Charte... Read More about Understanding nuclear deterrence within the international constitutional architecture.

Peacekeeping Doctrine: An Autonomous Legal Order? (2019)
Journal Article

This article explores the legal bases of autonomy in peacekeeping and whether it has developed to such an extent that there are signs of a self-referential legal order governing peacekeeping, separate from other legal orders. Given that it will be sh... Read More about Peacekeeping Doctrine: An Autonomous Legal Order?.

Autonomous and collective sanctions in the international legal order (2018)
Book Chapter

The UK government is currently proposing the enactment of a “Sanctions Act” upon the UK’s withdrawal from the EU in 2019, embodying a right to impose “autonomous sanctions” against other states and non-state actors, on the basis that the UK will no l... Read More about Autonomous and collective sanctions in the international legal order.

Treaties as 'living instruments' (2018)
Book Chapter

Ending the US embargo of Cuba: international law in dispute (2018)
Journal Article

The announcement by Presidents Obama and Castro in December 2014 of a major step towards normalisation of inter-state relations was part of what is primarily a political process, but normalisation implies a return to peaceful inter-state relations ba... Read More about Ending the US embargo of Cuba: international law in dispute.

Blurring public and private security in Indonesia: corporate interests and human rights in a fragile environment (2018)
Journal Article

While legal and policy frameworks are based on a clear distinction between public and private security actors and functions, the reality on the ground in Indonesia reveals that there is a high level of corporate capture of public security services, i... Read More about Blurring public and private security in Indonesia: corporate interests and human rights in a fragile environment.