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The Changing Rules on the Use of Force in International Law - Melland Schill

The Changing Rules on the Use of Force in International Law - Melland Schill

Tarcisio Gazzini

Price: $90.00 266 pages. Hardcover ISBN: 1-929446-75-6. $60, Softcover ISBN: 1-929446-74-8. Bibliography. Index. Published March 2006.

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The Changing Rules on the Use of Force in International Law - Hardcover
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Book Overview

 

Abbreviations

 

Introduction

 

Part 1 The collective use of force

 

I.                   The collective security system established by the Charter

The Pivotal role of Art. 39 of the Charter

The legal basis of the Security Council’s powers

The economic enforcement measures

The military enforcement measures

The limits to the Security Council’s powers

 

II.                The collective security system in practice

The enlargement of the notion of threat to peace

The consequences of the non-implementation of Articles 43 et. seq.

Peace-enforcement by the United Nations

The so-called authorization practice

The question of control

The emergence of a rule allowing Member States to carry out military enforcement measures

 

III.             The attempted dismantling of the collective security system

Main deviations from the so-called authorization practice

Military operations in and against Iraq in the aftermath of the Gulf Crisis

Liberia

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Sierra Leone

Kosovo

Afghanistan

Iraq (2003)

The impact of State practice upon collective security law

The inadmissibility of ex post facto authorisations

The inadmissibility of implied authorisations

Challenging the rule

The attempted dismantling of the collective security system

The practice of regional organisations and its impact on Chapter VIII of the Charter

The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

The Economic Community of Western African States

 

Part 2 The individual or joint use of force

 

IV.              Self-defense and other forms of unilateral use of force

The relationship between the norms on the use of force under the Charter and under customary international law

The alleged dependence of Art. 2(4) on the effective functioning of the collective security system

The right of self-defense

Armed attack as a prerequisite for self-defense

The so-called indirect aggression

Conditions for and limits to the resort to force in self-defence

      Immediacy

      Necessity

      Proportionality

Anticipatory self-defence

The international control over self-defence claims

Armed reprisals to enforce international rights

Protection of nationals abroad

Humanitarian intervention

 

V.                 The international fight against terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction

Terrorist activities as armed attack

States’ involvement in terrorism

The limits of self-defence in the fight against international terrorism

      Immediacy

      Necessity

      Proportionality

The question of pre-emptive self-defence

Armed reprisals against international terrorism

The doctrine of state of necessity in the context of international terrorism

Self-defence and weapons of mass destruction

Conditions and limits of the exercise of the right to self-defence with nuclear weapons

International obligations concerning weapons of mass destruction

Mechanisms of international enforcement of disarmament obligations not involving the use of force

The collective use of force to impose the respect of disarmament obligations

Unilateral or joint military measures to enforce disarmament obligations and to curb the trafficking of weapons of mass destruction

 

Concluding remarks

 

Bibliography

Index

 

 

 

 

 

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