Critical Perspectives on the Responsibility to Protect by Cunliffe Philip;

Author:Cunliffe, Philip;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2011-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

79. We reaffirm that the relevant provisions of the Charter are sufficient to address the full range of threats to international peace and security. We further reaffirm the authority of the Security Council to mandate coercive action to maintain and restore international peace and security. We stress the importance of acting in accordance with the purposes and principles of the Charter.13

The primary purpose of the UN is ‘to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.’14

Many, especially in the United States, are quick to dismiss the UN Charter and the UN as failures. They overlook that following the adoption of the Charter the next major breakthrough in the development of a peace order occurred. The Charter has effectively fostered a norm against conquest. The use of force to acquire and absorb a sovereign state, a member of the UN, is today considered beyond the pale. It has not been done successfully since the Charter was adopted. Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein tried to conquer Kuwait in 1990 but was repulsed in a near-universal action. The liberation of Kuwait was a lawful action that also demonstrated one of the few effective uses of coercive armed force: pushing another military force across an internationally recognized boundary.15

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