In association with the International Commission of Jurists

Author: Gian Luca Burci

23 Sep

Chiara Giorgetti devotes a good part of her book to the reactions of the international community, and the tools available to it, with regard to the lack of a functioning government in Somalia since 1991 and the consequent ripple effects that the failure of functioning governance there has produced on other countries.  The example she gives of the management of Somali...

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22 Sep

Chiara's book is quite timely and topical and fills a puzzling gap in international legal studies.  The concept of failed state, mostly epitomized by Somalia after 1991, became fashionable in the United Nations in the 1990s as the Security Council discovered its muscles under Chapter VII of the Charter and broadened the notion of threat to the peace to encompass humanitarian...

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