Just War Or Just Peace?: Humanitarian Intervention and International Law

Just War Or Just Peace?: Humanitarian Intervention and International Law
ISBN-10
0199243379
ISBN-13
9780199243372
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
295
Language
English
Published
2001
Publisher
Oxford University Press on Demand
Author
Simon Chesterman

Description

This book critically examines the right of humanitarian intervention, asserted most spectacularly by NATO during its 1999 air strikes over Kosovo. The UN Charter prohibits the unilateral use of force, but there have long been arguments that such a right might exist as an exception to this rule, or linked to the changing role of the Security Council. Through an analysis of these questions, the book puts NATO's action in Kosovo in its proper legal and historical perspective.

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