Collective security : theory, law and practice /
Nicholas Tsagourias and Nigel D. White.
- New York ; Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (xxxvi, 481 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
I. The concept of collective security -- Collective security : a historical journey -- The morphology of collective security -- Triggers, actors and institutions -- II. Collective security components -- States and collective security -- The United Nations -- Regional organisations -- Private military and security companies -- III. Collective security tools -- The settlement of disputes and preventive security -- State-building -- Sanctions -- Military security -- IV. Legal management of collective security -- Law as internal facilitator, regulator or constraint -- Law as external facilitator, regulator or constraint -- The management of normative conflicts -- V. Accountability in collective security -- Accountability in collective security -- International responsibility and liability -- Individual criminal responsibility.