This book provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the nature, content and scope of the rules regulating the use of force in international law as they are contained in the United Nations Charter, customary international law and international jurisprudence. It examines these rules as they apply to developing and challenging circumstances such as the emergence of non-State actors, security risks, new technologies and moral considerations.
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 ...
The main purpose of this book is to investigate how the use of force by individual states is currently regulated by international law, forty years after the adoption of the U.N Charter.
Die griechischen Staatsperträge des 4. ... “Die archaische Zeit Griechenlands als geschichtliche Epoche.” Antike & Abendland 2: 26–62. Hölkeskamp, K.-J. 1999. Schiedsrichter, Gesetzgeber und Gesetzgebung im archaischen Griechenland.
Finally, the new edition provides detailed coverage of the concept of self-defense, reflecting recent interpretations of the International Court of Justice and the ongoing controversies surrounding its definition and interpretation.
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 ...
In this book, Erika De Wet examines the authority entitled to extend a request for (or consent to) direct military assistance, as well as the type of situations during which such assistance may be requested, notably whether it may be ...
International Law and the Use of Force traces this shift and explores its implications for contemporary international law and practice.
This work reconsiders and critically evaluates the complex international legal framework which seeks to regulate wars of national liberation in the light of two fascinating case studies.
The first detailed description of when and how the police may use force under the international law of law enforcement.
This Book attempts to deduce regulatory standards that can close the gaps between the Promises made and the Outcomes secured by the United Nations in relation to its use of force.