Bulletin n. 3/2015
January 2016
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Anna Hood
    Ebola: A Threat to the Parameters of a Threat to the Peace?
    in Melbourne Journal of International Law , vol. 16, issue 1 ,  2015 ,  29-51
    In September 2014 the United Nations Security Council ('Council') passed Security Council Resolution 2177, which declared that the Ebola virus ('Ebola') was a threat to the peace under art 39 of the Charter of the United Nations. The Resolution was the first time that the Council had determined that a health issue constituted a threat to the peace. This article explores how the Council came to see Ebola as a threat to the peace, what reasons it provided to justify classifying the disease as a threat and what the significance of the Resolution is. The article argues that many of the rationales provided by states to justify the classification of Ebola as a threat to the peace represented a significant extension of the scope of a threat to the peace and that it is questionable whether under these rationales any substantive limits remain within the concept. It then turns to discuss the idea that the erosion of the limits within the term 'a threat to the peace' gives rise to the possibility that the Council's approach to determining a threat to the peace is beginning to resemble the Copenhagen School's theory on securitisation and it examines how viewing the Council's art 39 activity through the lens of securitisation may open up new ideas and questions about the Council's practice.
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