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This impressive work sheds light on the recent history of the UN Security Council (UNSC), examining how the penchant for UN-backed humanitarian intervention in the 1990s has given way to an impotent UNSC, unable to play a meaningful role in the war in Iraq.
Contents: Understanding the centrality of consent; Northern Iraq 1991; Somalia; Haiti; Rwanda; Bosnia; Back to Iraq; Beyond consent and sovereignty?; List of interviews; Selected bibliography; Index.