Uno ade? The System of Collective Security in the Context of the Iraq-Kuwait-Crisis

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - Region: Near East, Near Orient, grade: 13-14 Punkte, University of Marburg, language: English, abstract: Due to the Iraqi aggression against Kuwait, Chapter VII of the UN-Charter has
served for the Security Council to legalize military intervention against Iraq.13 In this
connection, it is relevant to deal with Chapter VII as the only element within the
Charter which authorizes the Security Council to make use of military force in case it
characterizes a crisis as a threat for international peace or as a breach of peace. There
from, scopes of action to protect international peace and security, but also possible
barriers will be interpreted.
Based on these theoretical fundamentals, the second part intends to give an empirical
analysis in which it should be proven to what extent the Iraq-Kuwait crisis can be
regarded as a renaissance of usage of force and in to what extent it can be really regarded
as an example of outstanding cooperation between the members of Security
Council. It would go beyond the scope of this paper to analyse every Resolution
which passed by the Security Council before Resolution 678 was accepted and there
is no interest in going into details about military action on the field.14 First of all it is
relevant to give a short differentiation between Chapter VI and Chapter VII, because
each of them suggests other strategies on how to treat a conflict.
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