The traditional conception of security as national security against military threats has changed radically since the adoption of the UN Charter in 1945. The perceived nature and sources of threats have been widened as well as the objects of protection, now including individuals, societies, the environment as such and the whole globe. In
International Law and Changing Perceptions of Security the contributors reflect on whether and how changing concepts and conceptions of security have affected different fields of international law, such as the use of force, the law of the sea, human rights, international environmental law and international humanitarian law.
The authors of this book have been inspired by Professor Said Mahmoudi to which this
Liber Amoricum is dedicated.
Jonas Ebbesson is Professor of Environmental Law and Dean of the Faculty of Law, Stockholm University. He is also Chairperson of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee and Director of Stockholm Environmental Law and Policy Centre.
Marie Jacobsson is Ambassador and Principal Legal Adviser on International Law at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. She is an Associate Professor of International Law at Lund University and a Member of the United Nations International Law Commission.
Mark Klamberg is a senior lecturer at Uppsala University and fellow at Stockholm Center for International Law and Justice. He has previously been a lecturer at Stockholm University and is the author of several publications on international criminal law.
David Langlet is Associate Professor at Stockholm University and research fellow at Stockholm Faculty of Law and Christ Church College in Oxford (2013–2014). He has previously been senior lecturer at the School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg.
Pål Wrange is Professor of public international law at Stockholm University and the Director of the Stockholm Centre for International Law and Justice. He previously served as principal legal advisor at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
Table of contents
Preface; List of Abbreviations; Academic Writings of Said Mahmoudi;
The Use of Force under the UN Charter: Modification and Reform through Practice or Consensus
Ove Bring Regulating Private Military and Security Companies
Iain Cameron The Mandate of the United Nations Security Council in a Changing World
Hans Corell Who is Responsible and for How Long? Final Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuel and the Obligation to Prevent Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons - A Swedish Perspective
Per Cramér Social-Ecological Security and International Law in the Anthropocene
Jonas Ebbesson Nonviolent Geopolitics: Law, Politics, and 21st Century Security
Richard Falk The Progression of International Law in Fostering the Extraterritorial Prosecution of Child Sex Tourist Offences
David I Fisher Margin of Appreciation and National Security
Pär Hallström Syria and the Issue of Chemical Weapons. A Snapshot of a Legal Time-frame: the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2118 (2013) and the OPCW Executive Council Decision
Marie Jacobsson International Law in the Age of Asymmetrical Warfare, Virtual Cockpits and Autonomous Robots
Mark Klamberg Climate Change and International Security
Timo Koivura Law of Sustainable Development in the Jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice
Abdul G. Koroma Minerals as Scarce Resources: the Quest for Secure and Sustainable Supply
David Langlet The Security Council, the African Union and the International Criminal Court: Anatomy of a Problematic Relationship
Phoebe Okowa Off-shore Wind Energy Development in International Law
Tullio Scovazzi and Ilaria Tani The Human Security of Endangered Peoples. Indigenous Groups Living in Isolation and First Contact
Dinah Shelton Towards an International Human Rights Judiciary?
Geir Ulfstein Intervention in National and Private Cyberspace and International Law
Pål Wrange Human Rights before Security in Kadi and Beyond
Inger Österdahl About the Contributors; Index.
Readership
Academic libraries, specialists, post-graduate students, undergraduate students, practitioners in international law