Full Description
When the United Nations Charter was adopted in 1945, states established a legal `paradigm' for regulating the recourse to armed force. In the years since then, however, significant developments have challenged the paradigm's validity, causing a `pardigmatic shift'. International Law and the Use of Force traces this shift and explores its implications for contemporary international law and practice.
Contents
Part I Introduction; Chapter 1 International law and the use of force; Chapter 2 Historical overview: the development of the legal norms relating to the recourse to force; Part II The United Nations Charter paradigm; Chapter 3 The United Nations Charter framework for the resort to force; Chapter 4 Collective use of force under the United Nations Charter; Part III Challenges to the Charter paradigm; Chapter 5 Anticipatory self-defense; Chapter 6 Intervention in civil and mixed conflicts; Chapter 7 Intervention to protect nationals; Chapter 8 Humanitarian intervention; Chapter 9 Responding to terrorism; Part IV Conclusion: beyond the Charter paradigm; Chapter 10 International law and the recourse to force: a shift in paradigms;