United Nations and the Question of Palestine - Rule By Law and the Structure of International Legal Subalternity

Contrary to conventional wisdom, there has been a continuing though vacillating gulf between the requirements of international law and the UN on the question of Palestine. This book explores the UN's management of the longest-running problem on its agenda, critically assessing tensions between the organization's position and international law. What forms has the UN's failure to respect international law taken, and with what implications? The author critically interrogates the received wisdom regarding the UN's fealty to the international rule of law, in favour of what is described as an international rule by law. This book demonstrates that through the actions of the UN, Palestine and its people have been committed to a state of what the author calls 'international legal subalternity', according to which the promise of justice through international law is repeatedly proffered under a cloak of political legitimacy furnished by the international community, but its realization is interminably withheld.

Product details

• Authors: Ardi Imseis, Imseis Ardi
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2023
• EAN: 9781316513897
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51389-7
• No. of pages: 303
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 245 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Print on Demand
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; United Nations, LAW / Legal History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, LAW / International, LAW / Public, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, International Relations, Public International Law, Legal History, Palestine, Political, Socio-Economic & Strategic Groupings