Join is this May for the launch of Dr Ardi Imseis's new book "The United Nations and the Question of Palestine".
Dr Imseis will join us with Discussant: Dr Thant Myint-U, United Nations Special Adviser on Humanitarian Diplomacy and Chair: Dr Glen Rangwala, POLIS to discuss his new book which explains the continuing, though vacillating, gulf between the requirements of international law and the UN on the question of Palestine.
Dr Imseis's book explores the UN's management of the longest-running problem on its agenda, critically assessing tensions between the organization's position and international law. What forms has the UN's failure to respect international law taken, and with what implications? The author critically interrogates the received wisdom regarding the UN's fealty to the international rule of law, in favour of what is described as an international rule by law. This book demonstrates that through the actions of the UN, Palestine and its people have been committed to a state of what the author calls 'international legal subalternity', according to which the promise of justice through international law is repeatedly proffered under a cloak of political legitimacy furnished by the international community, but its realization is interminably withheld.”
We hope you can join us for what promises to be an enlightening event.