James P. Terry, SJD, LLM Biography

"The intervention by the United States and its coalition partners in Iraq in March 2003 must be viewed as a significant historical precedent in the relationship of a major power to the [United Nations] Security Council. Previously, in 1998 in Kosovo, the United States and a coalition largely made up of NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organisation] partners had intervened to rescue and protect the threatened Albanian population from Serb aggression without specific Security Council approval. While the military action in Kosovo could arguably be justified as a humanitarian intervention, the coalition entry into Iraq in 2003 was justified on the basis of repeated violations of UN Security Council resolutions under Chapter VII (authorizing all necessary means) and of the threat to international peace and security in the region and the world community posed by the Saddam Hussein regime as a result thereof."