Table of Contents: “…Law and politics in the time of the prohibition on the use of force -- Critical discourse analysis and case study selection -- Spain 1946 (Resolutions 4 (1946), 7 (1946) and 10 (1946)) -- Palestine 1948 (Resolution 54 (1948)) -- Portuguese African territories 1963 (Resolution 180 (1963)) -- Apartheid in South Africa 1963-77 (Resolutions 181, 182 (1963), 190, 191 (1964), 282 (1973), 311 (1972), 417 and 418 (1977)) -- Vietnamese intervention into Cambodia 1978-79 -- US-Iran hostage crisis 1979 (Resolutions 457 and 461 (1979)) -- Namibian occupation by South Africa 1981-83 (Resolutions 532 and 539 (1983)) -- Repression of a civilian population-Iraq 1991 (Resolution 688 (1991)) -- Civil war in Yugoslavia 1991 (Resolution 713 (1991)) -- The coup in Haiti 1991-93 (Resolution 841) -- Extradition of Pan Am flight 103 bombing suspects and access to information related to UTA flight 772 bombing, 1992 (Resolutions 731 and 748 (1992)) -- Rwandan civil war and genocide 1993-94 (Resolutions 812 (1993), 846 (1993), 872 (1993), 893 (1994), 909 (1994), 912 (1994), and 918 (1994)) -- Afghanistan 1999 (Resolution 1267) -- East Timor intervention 1999 (Resolution 1264) -- Small arms trade (Resolution 2117 (2013) and the arms trade treaty) -- AIDS epidemic in Africa and peacekeeping operations 2000-05 -- Non-proliferation of WMDs : Resolutions 1441 (2002), 1540 (2004), 1696 (2006), 1718 (2006) -- UK and US use of force against Iraq 2003 -- Sexual violence as a tactic of war : 'women and peace and security', and 'children and armed conflict' (Resolutions 1820 (2008), 1882 (2009), 1888 (2009), and 1960 (2010)) -- Piracy : Somalia and Gulf of Guinea -- Civil war in Syria -- Chemical weapons (2013) : Resolution 2118 -- Meta-synthesis overview -- General meta-synthesis observations -- Team America : world police? …”