The Security Council and the use of force : theory and reality--a need for change? / by Niels Blokker and Nico Schrijver, editors ; with a foreword by Pieter Kooijmans.

At head of title: E.M. Meijers Institute of Legal Studies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Security Council and the use of force--on recent practice / Niels Blokker -- Challenges to the prohibition to use force : does the straitjacket of Article 2(4) UN Charter begin to gall too much? / Nico Schrijver -- The United Nations Security Council and the authorization of force : renewing the Council through law reform / Mary Ellen O'Connell -- The Security Council and the use of force : Kosovo, East Timor and Iraq / Peter van Walsum -- Towards new circumstances in which the use of force may be authorized? / Michael Wood -- The use of force in peacekeeping operations / Ralph Zacklin -- The Security Council and self-defence : which way to global security? / Jutta Brunnee -- Attribution of forcible acts to states : connections between the law on the use of force and the law of state responsibility / Andre Nollkaemper -- The United States and the Security Council / Stephen Mathias -- NATO, its member states and the Security Council / Marten Zwanenburg -- The Peace and Security Council of the African Union, the use of force and the United Nations Security Council : the case of the Sudan / Jeremy Levitt -- Towards a second enlargement of the Security Council? : a comparative perspective / Niels Blokker -- Reforming the Security Council : views from practice / Karel van Kesteren -- Reforming the Security Council : is there a hidden agenda? / Jean-Pierre Cot.