The Use of Force in International Law: A Case-Based Approach
The international law on the use of force is one of the oldest branches of international law. It is an area twinned with the emergence of international law as a concept in itself, and which sees law and politics collide.
The number of armed conflicts is equal only to the number of methodological approaches used to describe them.

Many violent encounters are well known. The Kosovo Crisis in 1999 and the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 spring easily to the minds of most scholars and academics, and gain extensive coverage in this text. Other conflicts, including the Belgian operation in Stanleyville, and the Ethiopian Intervention in Somalia, are often overlooked to our peril. Ruys and Corten's expert-written text compares over sixty different instances of the use of cross border force since the adoption of the UN Charter in 1945, from all out warfare to hostile encounters between individual units, targeted killings, and hostage rescue operations, to ask a complex question. How much authority does the power of precedent really have in the law of the use of force?
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The Use of Force in International Law: A Case-Based Approach
The international law on the use of force is one of the oldest branches of international law. It is an area twinned with the emergence of international law as a concept in itself, and which sees law and politics collide.
The number of armed conflicts is equal only to the number of methodological approaches used to describe them.

Many violent encounters are well known. The Kosovo Crisis in 1999 and the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 spring easily to the minds of most scholars and academics, and gain extensive coverage in this text. Other conflicts, including the Belgian operation in Stanleyville, and the Ethiopian Intervention in Somalia, are often overlooked to our peril. Ruys and Corten's expert-written text compares over sixty different instances of the use of cross border force since the adoption of the UN Charter in 1945, from all out warfare to hostile encounters between individual units, targeted killings, and hostage rescue operations, to ask a complex question. How much authority does the power of precedent really have in the law of the use of force?
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The Use of Force in International Law: A Case-Based Approach

The Use of Force in International Law: A Case-Based Approach

The Use of Force in International Law: A Case-Based Approach

The Use of Force in International Law: A Case-Based Approach

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Overview

The international law on the use of force is one of the oldest branches of international law. It is an area twinned with the emergence of international law as a concept in itself, and which sees law and politics collide.
The number of armed conflicts is equal only to the number of methodological approaches used to describe them.

Many violent encounters are well known. The Kosovo Crisis in 1999 and the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 spring easily to the minds of most scholars and academics, and gain extensive coverage in this text. Other conflicts, including the Belgian operation in Stanleyville, and the Ethiopian Intervention in Somalia, are often overlooked to our peril. Ruys and Corten's expert-written text compares over sixty different instances of the use of cross border force since the adoption of the UN Charter in 1945, from all out warfare to hostile encounters between individual units, targeted killings, and hostage rescue operations, to ask a complex question. How much authority does the power of precedent really have in the law of the use of force?

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198784364
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 07/17/2018
Pages: 962
Product dimensions: 9.60(w) x 6.70(h) x 2.00(d)

About the Author

Tom Ruys, Professor of Law, University of Ghent, Olivier Corten, Professor of Law, Université Libre de Bruxelles, and Alexandra Hofer, Doctoral Researcher, University of Ghent

Olivier Corten teaches public international law at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and is co-director of the Revue Belge de Droit International. He is the author or co-author of ten books and of more than one hundred and fifty articles.

Tom Ruys studied Law and International Relations at the Universities of Ghent, Nottingham, and Leuven. He joined the faculty of law at the University of Ghent as a tenure-track professor within the department of public international law. Tom Ruys is the author of several publications and has been awarded the Lieber Prize by the American Society of International Law. He is a member of the International Law Association's Committee on the Use of Force, Co-Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of the Use of Force and International Law, and a member of the editorial board of the Revue Belge de Droit International.


Assistant editor Alexandra Hofer is a Doctoral Researcher in the Faculty of Law, in the Department of European, Public and International Law at the University of Ghent.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Tom Ruys, Olivier Corten, and Alexandra Hofer2. The Caroline Incident - 1837, Michael Wood1 - The Cold War Era (1945-1989)3. The Korean War - 1950-1953, Nigel White4. The Suez Canal Crisis - 1956, Alexandra Hofer5. The Soviet Intervention in Hungary - 1956, Eliav Lieblich6. The U-2 incident - 1960, Ki-Gab Park7. The Belgian Intervention in The Congo - 1960 and 1964, Robert Kolb8. The Indian Intervention in Goa - 1961, Tom Ruys9. The Cuban Missile Crisis - 1962, Alexander Orakhelashvili10. The Gulf of Tonkin Incident - 1964, Douglas Guilfoyle11. The US Intervention in the Dominican Republic - 1965, Christian Walter12. The Six Day War - 1967, John Quigley13. The Intervention in Czechoslovakia - 1968, Gerhard Hafner14. The USS Pueblo Incident - 1968, Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg15. The Indian Intervention into (East) Pakistan - 1971, Dino Kristiotis16. The Yom Kippur War - 1973, Francois Dubuisson and Vaios Koutroulis17. Turkey's intervention in Cyprus - 1974, Oliver Dorr18. The Mayaguez Incident - 1975, Natalino Ronzitti19. The Entebbe Raid - 1976, Claus Kress and Benjamin K. Nussberger20. The Larnaca Incident - 1978, Constantine Antonopoulos21. The Vietnamese Intervention in Cambodia - 1978, Gregory H. Fox22. The Ugandan-Tanzanian War - 1978-1979, Kenneth Chan23. Operation Litani - 1978, Myra Williamson24. The Lebanon War - 1982, Myra Williamson25. The Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan - 1979-1980, Georg Nolte and Janina Barkholdt26. The US Hostage Rescue Operation in Iran - 1980, Mathias Forteau and Alison See Ying Xiu27. The Iran-Iraq War - 1980-1988, Andrea de Guttry28. Israel's Air Strike Against Iraq's Osiraq Nuclear Reactor - 1981, Tom Ruys29. The US Intervention in Nicaragua - 1981-1988, Jorg Kammerhofer30. The Falklands/Malvinas War - 1982, Etienne Henry31. South African Incursions into Lesotho - 1982, Theresa Reinold32. The US Intervention in Grenada - 1983, Nabil Hajjami33. The Israeli Raid Against the PLO Headquarters in Tunis - 1985, Erin Pobjie, Fanny Declercq, and Raphael Van Steenberghe34. The Killing of Khalil al-Wazir by Israeli Commandos in Tunis - 1988, Erin Pobjie, Fanny Declercq, and Raphael Van Steenberghe35. The US Strikes Against Libya - 1986, Maurice Kamto36. The US Intervention in Panama - 1989, Nicholas Tsagourias2 - The Post-Cold War Era (1990-2000)37. The ECOWAS Intervention in Liberia - 1990-1997, Ugo Villani38. The Gulf War - 1990-1991, Erika de Wet39. Intervention in Iraq's Kurdish region and the Creation of the No-Fly Zones in Northern and Southern Iraq - 1991-2003, Tarcisio Gazzini40. The Intervention in Somalia, Terry D. Gill and Kinga Tibori-Szabo41. The Intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina - 1992-1995, Pierre Klein42. The US Air Strike Against the Iraqi Intelligence Headquarters - 1993, Paulina Starski43. The ECOWAS Intervention in Sierra Leone - 1997-1999, Susan Breau44. The US Strikes in Sudan and Afghanistan - 1998, Enzo Cannizzaro and Aurora Rasi45. The Eritrean-Ethiopian War - 1998-2000, Sean D. Murphy46. The Great African War and the Intervention by Uganda and Rwanda in the Democratic Republic of Congo - 1998-2003, James A. Green47. The Kosovo crisis - 1999, Daniel Franchini and Antonios Tzanakopoulos3 - The Post 9/11-Era (2001-)48. The Intervention in Afghanistan - 2001-, Michael Byers49. The Iraq War - 2003, Marc Weller50. Israeli Air Strikes in Syria - 2003 and 2007, Lindsay Moir51. The Israeli Intervention in Lebanon - 2006, Christian J. Tams and Wenke Bruckner52. The Turkish Intervention Against the PKK in Northern Iraq - 2007-2008, Kimberley N. Trapp53. 'Operation Phoenix' - the Colombian Raid Against the FARC in Ecuador - 2008, Monica Pinto and Marcos Kotlik54. The Conflict in Georgia - 2008, Christine Gray55. Israeli Military Operations Against Gaza: Operation Cast Lead (2008-2009), Operation Pillar of Defense (2012) and Operation Protective Edge (2014), Christian Henderson56. The NATO Intervention in Libya - 2011, Ashley Deeks57. US Extra-Territorial Actions against Individuals: Bin Laden, Al Awlaki, and Abu Khattalah, David Kretzmer58. The Intervention in Cote d'Ivoire - 2011, Dire Tladi59. The Intervention of the Gulf Cooperation Council in Bahrain - 2011, Agatha Verdebout60. The Ethiopian Military Intervention in Somalia - 2011, Jean-Christophe Martin61. The Intervention of France and African Countries in Mali 2013, Karine Bannelier and Theodore Christakis62. Threats of and Actual Military Strikes against Syria - 2013 and 2017, Anne Lagerwall63. The Crisis in Ukraine - 2014, Mary Ellen O'Connell64. The Military Operations against the 'Islamic State' (ISIL or Da'esh) - 2014, Olivier Corten65. The Saudi-Led Military Intervention in Yemen's Civil War - 2015, Luca Ferro and Tom Ruys66. The ECOWAS Intervention in the Gambia - 2016, Mohamed S. Helal
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