Now in its ninth year, the Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law has become a much sought after forum for essays in international law related to the UN.
Volume 9 (2005) reflects the outcome of an expert meeting discussing possible models for the legal reconstruction of post conflict societies by the international community.
Contributors analyse experience gained under the authority of the League of Nations as well as the United Nations in countries and territories such as West-Irian, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, East Timor, Afghanistan and Somalia. Special attention is paid to fundamental questions in this area, such as conceptual differences between "nation building" and "state building", as well as the situation in Iraq after the military intervention by the Coalition in 2003. This Volume is therefore again a must for any academic or practitioner involved in international questions concerning the United Nations. In addition the Volume comprises some reviews of books on the United Nations and related topics.

For more information on this yearbook please visit the website of the Max Planck Institute.

Table of Contents:
List of Contributors, Abbreviations, Wolfrum, Rüdiger, Iraq – from Belligerent Occupation to Iraqi Exercise of Sovereignty: Foreign Power versus International Community Interference, Matz, Nele, Civilization and the Mandate System under the League of Nations as Origin of Trusteeship, Case Studies, Gruss, Daniel, UNTEA and West New Guinea, Keller, Lucy, UNTAC in Cambodia – from Occupation, Civil War and Genocide to Peace, Oellers-Frahm, Karin, Restructuring Bosnia-Herzegovina: A Model with Pit-Falls, Friedrich, Jürgen, UNMIK in Kosovo: Struggling with Uncertainty, Benzing, Markus, Midwifing a New State: The United Nations in East Timor, Afsah, Ebrahim/ Guhr, Alexandra H., Afghanistan: Building a State to Keep the Peace, Goldmann, Matthias, Sierra Leone: African Solutions to African Problems?, Philipp, Christiane E., Somalia – A Very Special Case, Cross Cutting Issues, Seibert-Fohr, Anja, Reconstruction through Accountability, von Bogdandy, Armin/ Häußler, Stefan/ Hanschmann, Felix/ Utz, Raphael, State-Building, Nation-Building, and Constitutional Politics in Post-Conflict Situations: Conceptual Clarifications and an Appraisal of Different Approaches, Utz, Raphael, Nations, Nation-Building, and Cultural Intervention: A Social Science Perspective, Wolfrum, Rüdiger, International Administration in Post-Conflict Situations by the United Nations and Other International Actors, Book Reviews