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Abstract

This concluding chapter draws the central threads of the book together. It proceeds in five steps, providing conclusions, first, on the limitation of military intervention by invitation and, second, on the institutionalisation triggered by the increased importance of the UN Security Council in the operation of the law. It then takes up the question of whether Council practice may contribute to the development of the law, and it addresses the politicisation of the practice of consensual military intervention. Finally, it argues that while practice has been multilateralised as a result of the increased role the Security Council plays, we are in fact witness only to a ‘half-hearted multilateralisation’.