International Law and the Use of Force: Beyond the U.N. Charter Paradigm

by Anthony Clark Arend, Robert J. Beck

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781136143724
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/04/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Anthony Clark Arend is Assistant Professor of Government, Georgetown University.,
Robert J. Beck is Assistant Professor of International Law and Organization in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia.

Table of 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;