Multilateralism / Comment
The Use of Force and the Responsibility to Protect
14/09/2005 By Rainer Hofmann
The author analyses the pre-emptive, preventive and protective uses of force, considering that the Security Council has the power to evaluate in which situations there are threats to international peace.
This body has also the mandate to authorize the necessary measures to confront these threats, including the use of force.
The paper focuses on the cases of international terrorism and failed states.
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Security Security Council UNBio author: Rainer Hofmann
Professor of Constitutional and International Law at the University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany since October 2004. He holds a PhD iuris utriusque from the University of Heidelberg. Since October 1996, he is a Member of the Board of the European Centre for Minority Issues in Flensburg, and since November 2001, Member of the Advisory Council on Public International Law of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
