1. Law and Force; 2. The Prohibition of the Use of Force; 3. Invitation and Intervention: Civil Wars and the Use of Force; 4. Self-defence; 5. Collective Self-defence; 6. The Use of Force against Terrorism: a New War for a New Century; 7. The UN and the Use of Force; 8.
International Law and the Use of Force traces this shift and explores its implications for contemporary international law and practice.
This book explores the whole of the large and controversial subject of the use of force in international law; it examines not only the use of force by states but also the role of the UN in peacekeeping and enforcement action, and the ...
Looking through the prism of the contemporary challenges that this area of international law faces, including technology, sovereignty, actors, compliance and enforcement, this book addresses key aspects of international law in this area: ...
This is matched by a final section considering new security challenges and the emerging law in relation to them. Finally, the key arguments developed in the book are tied together in a substantive conclusion.
Many violent encounters are well known. The Kosovo Crisis in 1999 and the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 spring easily to the minds of most scholars and academics, and gain extensive coverage in this text.
W. Michael Reisman, “Nuclear Weapons in International Law,” New York Law School Journal of International and Comparative ... FURTHER READING Boyle, Francis A. “The Relevance of International Law to the 'Paradox' of Nuclear Deterrence.
The author pursues, on historic lines, an estimation of the extent of legal prohibition of the use of force by states.
1986] Rules on the Use of Force 123 doubts. He can argue that without international enforcement, censure has no impact on state actions: it remains merely rhetorical condemnation without sanctions. Law must be more than aspiration or ...
This is the first book to analyze the lawfulness of the use of force against Iraq on the basis of formerly classified material made public by the official UK inquiry into the war.
This book analyzes the legality of the use of force by the US, the UK and their NATO allies against Afghanistan in 2001.