Antonios Tzanakopoulos, DISOBEYING THE SECURITY COUNCIL: COUNTERMEASURES AGAINST WRONGFUL SANCTIONS Oxford: Oxford University Press (www.oup.com), 2011. xxxii + 243 pp. ISBN 9780199600762. £70.

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AuthorMarko Milanovic
DOI10.3366/elr.2012.0098
Published date01 January 2012
Date01 January 2012
Pages141-142

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 scholarship covering a range of complex issues, based on the author's DPhil thesis at Oxford. The book provides a valuable contribution to contemporary debates in international law on whether there are legal limits on the powers of the UN Security Council and if so how these legal limits are to be enforced. The traditional focus in this debate has been on the validity of Council decisions as measured against either the UN Charter or some external body of law, and on the legal consequences of any invalidity. Think, for example, of human rights-based challenges to targeted sanctions imposed by the Council on suspected terrorists, pursuant to listing regimes under resolutions 1267 and 1373, examples such as asset freezes and travel bans. In trying to move this debate forward the book makes two important arguments. First, that it is states themselves who are the ultimate judges of the legality of the Security Council's decisions (of course, a point made before). In a decentralised system lacking any compulsory and systematic means of judicial control and dispute resolution, self-help may turn...

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