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Bourtos Boutros-Ghali, An Agenda for Peace, New York: United Nations, 1992, para.69.

See Jan Willem Honig and Norbert Both, Srebrenica: Record of a War Crime, London: Penguin, 1996.

Most famously see Hedley Bull, The Anarchical Society: A Study of Order in World Politics, London: Macmillan, 1977.

For an overview and assessment of the key changes during this period see Alex J. Bellamy, Paul Williams and Stuart Griffin, Understanding Peacekeeping, Cambridge: Polity, 2004.

The British frequently claimed that both the Bosnian war itself and the UN mandate were very complex in justifying their inaction in the face of ethnic cleansing and genocide. See Brendan Simms, Unfinest Hour: Britain and the Destruction of Bosnia, London: Allen Lane, 2001.

Report of the Secretary-General Pursuant to General Assembly Resolution 53/35: The Fall of Srebrenica, A/54/549, 15 Nov. 1999.

The UK House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee concluded that although the war was of ‘dubious legality’; it was, however, ‘justified on moral grounds’, Fourth Report, Session 1999–2000, no.138, accessec at www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cml99900/cmselect/cmfaff/28/2813.htm.

Mark Littman, Kosovo: Law & Diplomacy, London: Centre for Policy Studies, 1999, p.3.

Kirsten Sellars, The Rise and Rise of Human Rights, Stroud: Sutton, 2002, p.187.

The interactions of private international law (those issues of an international flavour which nonetheless primarily fall within the jurisdiction of domestic judicial bodies) have been extensively analysed.

A jus cogens norm is a peremptory norm of international law, so fundamental that it is immune from any form of state derogation. The elimination or amendment of jus cogens norms may only come about by way of the development of further peremptory norms themselves.

Unwillingness or inability of a state to investigate or prosecute being the only grounds upon which the Court may begin to exercise its jurisdiction in otherwise legally qualifying matters.

Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler, ‘Greed and Grievance in Civil War’, World Bank, 2001, accessed from www.worldbank.org/research/conflict/papers/greedgrievance_23oct.pdf.