All Outputs (11)

The responsibility to protect and the use of force: remaking the procrustean bed? (2015)
Journal Article
Morris, J. (2016). The responsibility to protect and the use of force: remaking the procrustean bed?. Cooperation and Conflict, 51(2), 200-215. https://doi.org/10.1177/0010836715612852

The emergence of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) owed much to the need to enhance the UN’s ability to act forcibly in the face of the most extreme cases of gross human suffering. Too often in the past such responses were emasculated or thwarted b... Read More about The responsibility to protect and the use of force: remaking the procrustean bed?.

The responsibility to protect and the great powers: the tensions of dual responsibility (2015)
Journal Article
Morris, J. (2015). The responsibility to protect and the great powers: the tensions of dual responsibility. Global Responsibility to Protect, 7(3-4), 398-421. https://doi.org/10.1163/1875984x-00704009

Since the UN’s 2005 adoption of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) the five permanent members (P5) of the organisation’s Security Council have been burdened with a special dual responsibility, entailing a special responsibility to maintain internati... Read More about The responsibility to protect and the great powers: the tensions of dual responsibility.

Libya and Syria: R2P and the spectre of the swinging pendulum (2013)
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Morris, J. (2013). Libya and Syria: R2P and the spectre of the swinging pendulum. International Affairs, 89(5), 1265-1283. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.12071

From 'peace by dictation' to international organisation: great power responsibility and the creation of the United Nations (2013)
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Morris, J. (2013). From 'peace by dictation' to international organisation: great power responsibility and the creation of the United Nations. International History Review, 35(3), 511-533. https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2013.795497

This article examines the attitudes of US, British, and Soviet policy-makers as they planned for the forthcoming peace during the Second World War. It charts how they moved from planning a ‘peace by dictation' of the great powers, to planning one whi... Read More about From 'peace by dictation' to international organisation: great power responsibility and the creation of the United Nations.

How Great is Britain? Power, responsibility and Britain’s future global role (2011)
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Morris, J. (2011). How Great is Britain? Power, responsibility and Britain’s future global role. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 13(3), 326-347. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-856X.2011.00450.x

Hedley Bull argued that for a state to be classed as a great power it must be in the first rank in terms of military strength but also recognised by others to have, and conceived by its own leaders and peoples to have, certain special rights and duti... Read More about How Great is Britain? Power, responsibility and Britain’s future global role.

The Security Council's crisis of legitimacy and the use of force (2007)
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Morris, J., & Wheeler, N. J. (2007). The Security Council's crisis of legitimacy and the use of force. International Politics, 44(2-3), 214-231. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.ip.8800185

Imperfect unions: security institutions over time and space. Edited by Helga Haftendorn, Robert O. Keohane and Celeste A. Wallander (2001)
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Morris, J. (2001). Imperfect unions: security institutions over time and space. Edited by Helga Haftendorn, Robert O. Keohane and Celeste A. Wallander. International Affairs, 77(2), 423 - 424. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.00198

UN Security Council Reform: A counsel for the 21st century (2000)
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Morris, J. (2000). UN Security Council Reform: A counsel for the 21st century. Security Dialogue, 31(3), 265-277. https://doi.org/10.1177/0967010600031003002

International law, international relations and the development of European collective security (1999)
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McCoubrey, H., & Morris, J. C. (1999). International law, international relations and the development of European collective security. Journal of conflict & security law, 4(2), 195 - 214. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcsl/4.2.195

The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of both the former-USSR and the Warsaw Pact has inevitably led to a major reorientation of European defence and security concepts. NATO, whilst retaining its core remit as a defence alliance founded upon Ar... Read More about International law, international relations and the development of European collective security.

Regional peacekeeping in the post‐cold war era (1999)
Journal Article
Morris, J., & McCoubrey, H. (1999). Regional peacekeeping in the post‐cold war era. International Peacekeeping, 6(2), 129-151. https://doi.org/10.1080/13533319908413775

The end of the Cold War has brought about a major change in the paradigm of UN peace support action. The organization has found itself unable successfully to sustain the increasing demands placed upon it and has sought other mechanisms through which... Read More about Regional peacekeeping in the post‐cold war era.

Force and democracy: UN/US intervention in Haiti (1995)
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Morris, J. (1995). Force and democracy: UN/US intervention in Haiti. International Peacekeeping, 2(3), 391-412. https://doi.org/10.1080/13533319508413568

The restoration to power of Jean-Bertrand Aristide's government in Haiti in September 1994 appears at first sight to be a victory for democracy over the evils of authoritarian dictatorship. It also suggests the continued willingness of the UN Securit... Read More about Force and democracy: UN/US intervention in Haiti.