Recourse to Force: State Action against

The United Nations Charter in 1945 prohibits all use of force by states except in the event of an armed attack or when authorized by the Security Council. Although the Charter is very hard to amend, its drafters agreed that it should be interpreted flexibly by the UN's principal political institutions and the text has undergone extensive interpretation. This book relates these changes in law and practice to changing public values pertaining to the balance between maintaining peace and promoting justice.

The United Nations' capacity for adapting to radical changes of circumstance
Use of force by the United Nations
The original parameters of self-defence
Self-defence against state-sponsored terrorists and infiltrators
Self-defence against ideological subversion
Self-defence against attacks on citizens abroad
Anticipatory self-defence
Countermeasures and self-help
The 'purely humanitarian' intervention
What, eat the cabin boy? Uses of force that are illegal but justifiable
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Recourse to Force: State Action against Threats and Armed Attacks

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