Vaughan Lowe is Chichele Professor of Public International Law, and a Fellow of All Souls College, in the University of Oxford. He also practices in the field of international law as a barrister from Essex Court Chambers, London and has appeared in cases before English and International courts, and sits on international tribunals.

Sir Adam Roberts is now President of the British Academy. Previous to this (from 1986 to 2007) he was Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University, and a Fellow of Balliol College. His books include (ed. with Benedict Kingsbury), United Nations, Divided World: The UN¿s Roles in International Relations, 2nd edn. (Oxford University Press, 1993), and (ed. with Richard Guelff), Documents on the Laws of War, 3rd edn. (Oxford University Press, 2000).

Jennifer Welsh is Professor in International Relations at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Somerville College. She is the author, most recently, of At Home In The World: Canada's Global Vision For The 21st Century (HarperCollins, 2004), and editor of Humanitarian Intervention and International Relations (Oxford Univeristy Press, 2003). She was recently named a Trudeau Fellow, and is currently on a Leverhulme research grant working on a project on 'sovereignty as responsibility'.

Dominik Zaum is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Reading, and author of The Sovereignty Paradox: The Norms and Politics of International Statebuilding (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).

• 1: Vaughan Lowe, Adam Roberts, Jennifer Welsh and Dominik Zaum: Introduction


• Part I: The Framework


• 2: Edward C. Luck: A Council for All Seasons: The Creation of the Security Council and Its Relevance Today


• 3: Christine Gray: The Charter Limitations on the Use of Force: Theory and Practice


• 4: Adam Roberts: Proposals for UN Standing Forces: A Critical History


• Part II: The Roles of the Security Council


• 5: Nico Krisch: The Great Powers and the Security Council


• 6: Dominik Zaum: The Security Council, the General Assembly, and War: The Uniting for Peace Resolution


• 7: Mats Berdal: The Security Council and Peacekeeping


• 8: David Cortright, George Lopez, and Linda Gerber Stellingwerf: The Sanctions Era: Themes and Trends in UN Security Council Sanctions since 1990


• 9: Dan Sarooshi: The Authorization by the Security Council of Regional Arrangements to Use Force: The Case of NATO


• 10: Jeremy Greenstock: The Security Council in the Post-Cold War World


• Part III: Case Studies


• 11: William Stueck: The United Nations, the Security Council, and the Korean War


• 12: Roger Louis: The Suez Crisis and the British Dilemma at the United Nations


• 13: Bruce Jones: The Security Council and the Arab-Israeli Wars: Responsibility without Power


• 14: Rahul Roy-Chaudhury: The Security Council and the India-Pakistan Wars


• 15: Peter Carey with Pat Walsh: The Security Council and the Question of East Timor'


• 16: Charles Tripp: The Security Council and the Iran-Iraq War


• 17: James Cockayne and David Malone: The Security Council and the 1991 and 2003 Iraq Wars


• 18: Susan Woodward: The Security Council and the Wars in the former Yugoslavia


• 19: Rupert Smith: The Security Council and the Bosnia Conflict: A Practitioner's View


• 20: Gilles Dorronsoro: The Security Council and Afghanistan


• 21: Adekeye Adebajo: The Security Council and Three Wars in West Africa


• 22: J.P.D. Dunbabin: The Security Council in the Wings: Exploring the Non-Involvement of the Security Council in Wars


• Part IV: The Security Council and the Changing Character of War


• 23: Georg Nolte: The Different Functions of the Security Council with Respect to Humanitarian Law


• 24: Jennifer Welsh: The Security Council and Interventions with Humanitarian Purposes


• 25: Richard Caplan: The Security Council and International Administration of War-Torn and Contested Territories


• 26: David Scheffer: The Security Council and International Law on Military Occupations


• 27: Jane Boulden: The Security Council and Terrorism


• 28: Sarah Percy: The Security Council and the Use of Private Force


• Appendices


• 1: UN Peacekeeping Operations, 1945 - 2006


• 2: UN Forces, Missions, and Institutions not Classified as Peacekeeping Operations, 1945 - 2006


• 3: UN-Authorized Military Operations, 1945 - 2006


• 4: UN-Authorized Sanctions, 1945 - 2006


• 5: Vetoed Security Council Resolutions, 1945 - 2006


• 6: Uses of the Uniting for Peace Resolution, 1950 - 2006


• 7: List of Armed Conflicts and Crises, 1945 - 2006