List of contributors vii Series editors' preface xiii Preface xv List of abbreviations xvii Introduction: the new collective security Peter G. Danchin Horst Fischer 1 Part I Law and politics in United Nations reform 33 1 Things fall apart: the concept of collective security in international law Peter G. Danchin 35 2 Reflections on the politics of institutional reform Jan Klabbers 76 3 Great Powers then and now: Security Council reform and responses to threats to peace and security Lauri Mälksoo 94 Part II Defining "threats" to collective security 115 4 Assessing the High-Level Panel Report: rethinking the causes and consequences of threats to collective security Maxwell O. Chibundu 117 5 Collective security and the responsibility to protect George Andreopoulos 155 6 Responses to nonmilitary threats: environment, disease, and technology Joachim Wolf 173 Part III Prevention and responses 193 7 On the far side of conflict: the UN Peacebuilding Commission as optical illusion Dirk Salomons 195 8 The new peacebuilding architecture: an institutional innovation of the United Nations Ejeviome Eloho Otobo 212 9 The World Summit process and UN sanctions reform: between rhetoric and force Jeremy Farrall 235 10 The UN response to the evolving threat of global terrorism: institutional reform, rivalry, or renewal? Eric Rosand 250 11 International justice and collective security: between pragmatism and principle Carmen Márquez Carrasco 282 Part IV Perspectives on the Ground 311 12 Developing security in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo: MONUC as a practical example of (failing) collective security Dennis Dijkzeul 313 13 Indirect power: a critical look at civil society in the new Human Rights Council Elizabeth Salmón 343 14 Collective security: a village-eye view J. Paul Martin Benedicto Q. Sánchez 365 Bibliography 394 Index 422.