When do states turn to the United Nations Security Council? Today the term threat to peace is interpreted more widely than ever before ranging from inter-state conflict over internal wars to humanitarian crisis. Alarming the Security Council to international crisis is an exceptional foreign...

States engage in forum shopping when choosing a method for peaceful dispute settlement. As rational actors they weigh their options selecting either bilateral negotiations, a political third party or judicial means. The overarching concern of a government in combination with a forum's...

Zwei sicherheitspolitische Schlüsselbegriffe der 1990er Jahre sind Intervention und Krisenprävention: Beide Konzepte erlebten in den 1990er Jahren eine einzigartige Karriere, da sich mit ihnen die Hoffnung verband, über wirksame Instrumente zur Eindämmung der aufflammenden Krisenherde zu...