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Institutionalizing State Responsibility: Global Security and UN Organs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2017

Vincent-Joël Proulx
Vincent-Joël Proulx*
Affiliation:
National University of Singapore
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Reexamining International Law at the International, Regional, and State Levels (New Voices)
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Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting , Volume 110 , 2016 , pp. 212 - 215
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2016

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References

1 See, e.g., Vincent-Joël Proulx, Transnational Terrorism and State Accountability: A New Theory of Prevention (2012); Kimberley Trapp, State Responsibility for International Terrorism (2011); Tal Becker, Terrorism and the State: Rethinking the Rules of State Responsibility (2006).

2 See Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts, UN Doc A/56/10 Arts, 21, 28 (2001); II(2) Yearbook of the International Law Commission 26 (2001) (and Commentary, p. 31).

3 See id., Arts. 31, 34–37. Of course, it may well be that restitution is not a feasible remedy following an internationally wrongful act involving the perpetration of a terrorist attack.

4 See, e.g., S.C. Res. 1373 (Sept. 28, 2001); S.C. Res. 2178 (Sept. 24, 2014).

5 These brief remarks draw on research published in Vincent-Joe¨l Proulx, Institutionalizing State Responsibility: Global Security and UN Organs (2016).

6 Needless to say, the adoption of countermeasures is subject to some requirements which are laid down in Chapter II of the International Law Commission's Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts, supra note 2, Arts. 49–53.

7 Much has been written on the Security Council's “quasi-legislative” role. See, e.g., Talmon, Stefan, The Security Council as World Legislature, 99 AJIL 175 (2005)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Szasz, Paul, The Security Council Starts Legislating, 96 AJIL 901 (2002)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

8 See S.C. Res. 687, paras. 2, 7–14, 32 (Apr. 3, 1991).

9 See S.C. Res. 660, paras. 1–2 (Aug. 2, 1990); S.C. Res. 661, para. 1 (Aug. 6, 1991); S.C. Res. 688, para. 2 (Apr. 5, 1991).

10 See S.C. Res. 748, para. 2 (Mar. 31, 1992).

11 See S.C. Res. 918, para. 1 (May 17, 1994).

12 See, e.g., S.C. Res. 687, para. 16 (Apr. 3, 1991).

13 The language is borrowed from Vera Gowlland-Debbas, Security Council Enforcement Action and Issues of State Responsibility, 43 Int'l & Comp. L.Q. 55, 65 (1994).

14 S.C. Res. 487, para. 6 (June 19, 1981).

15 S.C. Res. 138, para. 2 (June 23, 1960).