International Law and the Use of Force: Beyond the UN Charter Paradigm

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Psychology Press, 1993 - History - 272 pages
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

International law and the use of force
1
the development of the legal norms relating
11
Figures
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The United Nations Charter framework for the resort to force
29
Collective use of force under the United Nations Charter
47
Anticipatory selfdefense
71
Intervention in civil and mixed conflicts
87
Intervention to protect nationals
226
Responding to terrorism
238
beyond the Charter paradigm
255
Index
266
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