Antonios Tzanakopoulos, lecturer at the University of Glasgow and at UCL, has written a
powerful book in Disobeying the Security Council. It is a rich–at times very rich–piece of …

Extent and limits of the powers of the UN Security Council have been a topic of scholarly
debate since the newly founded United Nations took up work after World War II. There was …

In Disobeying the Security Council, Tzanakopulos sets himself the difficult task of explaining
in what circumstances States are entitled to determine whether decisions of the United …

The UN Security Council has been questioned ever since the time of its foundation in 1945.
Mostly the criticism has evolved around its powerful status in relation to its limited number of …

BOOK REVIEWS 565 same time. That the disobedience of states in response to wrongful
sanctions should be qualified as countermeasures is the book's central–and most original as …

Irrespective of the interest that it sparks of its own accord, Antonios Tzanakopoulos' book
undeniably comes at the right moment. In 2011, the International Law Commission (ILC) …

ABSTRACT The Security Council has been criticized over the years for acting under Chapter
VII in ways that seem beyond the intentions of the drafters or the ordinary meaning of the UN …

The United Nations (UN) Security Council, with its immense powers under Chapter VII of the
UN Charter, has taken centre stage in a recent 'turn to accountability'in international law. 1 …

This book examines how the United Nations Security Council, in exercising its power to
impose binding non-forcible measures ('sanctions') under Article 41 of the UN Charter, may …

In the years following the adoption by the United Nations Security Council of Resolution 678
in 1990, significant academic attention was directed towards the expanded view of the …