Using Military Forces under International Auspices: A Mixed System of Accountability
Document Type
Book Section
Publication Date
3-2004
ISBN
978-0754639527
Abstract
Many current threats to security arising from terrorism, "rogue" states and civil wars are highly complex and often transnational in nature and effect. Such threats can no longer be meaningfully addressed at the national level alone but require an international response. Since the end of the Cold War, the use of force under international auspices (UN, NATO, EU) has increased substantially. However, such actions have not necessarily been accompanied by improvements in their democratic accountability. Pre-existing problems and inadequacies of parliamentary oversight of armed forces and use of force at the national level of many democratic states are mirrored, and even magnified, at the international level. The effect of imperfect democratic controls at the national level and the challenges to provide transparent and accountable multilateral responses results in the so-called "double democratic deficit" of the international use of force. Each chapter in this work analyses the challenges of parliamentary and democratic supervision of international security structures and puts forward proposals on how to improve democratic accountability of multinational responses to complex security challenges.
First Page
33
Last Page
50
Publisher
Ashgate Pub Ltd
Place
Burlington, VT
Editor
Hans Born & Heiner Hanggi
Book Title
The 'Double Democratic Deficit': Parliamentary Accountability and the Use of Force under International Auspices
Recommended Citation
Charlotte Ku,
Using Military Forces under International Auspices: A Mixed System of Accountability,
in
The 'Double Democratic Deficit': Parliamentary Accountability and the Use of Force under International Auspices
33
(Hans Born & Heiner Hanggi eds., 2004).
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