The Iraq Crisis

What Now

Bibliographic Data

ID9929138
AuthorsVaughan Lowe (corresponding author)
Year2003
Volume52
Issue4
Pages859-871
Publication date2003-10-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational and Comparative Law Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-5893 • E-ISSN: 1471-6895
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1093/iclq/52.4.859
OpenAlexW2085516143
LanguageEN
Citations received10

Much ink has been spilled over the question of the legality of the invasion of Iraq and of the extraordinary claims to a right to override ‘unreasonable’ uses of veto in the Security Council. That invasion has taken place, and as the United States and the United Kingdom withdrew from the Security Council the draft resoluation that would have expressly authorised that invasion, there was no occasion to override any veto that might have been cast against such a resolution had it been put to the Council. Writing while fighting in Iraq is still processding, it is both too late and too early to consider those questions of legality in great detail: too late to have any practical value; and perhaps too early for the measured appraisal of the situation that will be needed in due course. I want instead to address a slightly different question

Political science · Politics · Principle of legality · Security council · Value (mathematics · Veto · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · International Law and Human Rights · Law · Military and Defense Studies

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