title: The Relationship between Third-party Countermeasures and the Security Council’s Chapter vii Powers: Enforcing Obligations erga omnes in International Law
abstract: The article examines the relationship between third-party countermeasures and the Security Council’s powers to adopt measures under Chapter vii of the United Nations Charter in response to breaches of obligations erga omnes . It is shown that the resort to third-party countermeasures is neither precluded nor subject to limitations as a result of the relationship to the Security Council’s Chapter vii powers, even when both types of measures are adopted concurrently. Moreover, the fears that third
journal: Nordic Journal of International Law