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.
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Intellectually Honest Primer on Use of Force Law,
This review is from: International Law and the Use of Force: Beyond the U.N. Charter Paradigm (Paperback)
Anthony Clark Arend and Robert Beck have written an intellectually honest piece exploring the use of force under international law. The book begins with a discussion of the development of the law regarding the use of force from ancient times to the writing of the United Nations charter. The book then goes on to fairly examine state behavior since the UN Charter and poses the question: how has custom strayed from the thinking that inspired the Charter and the mechanisms that it set up. They give an objective, balanced overview of the state of law regarding a number of issues from intervention in civil and mixed conflict to rescue of nationals abroad and dealing with terrorists. Though they discuss all sides of the issue, Arend and Beck ultimately conclude that although international law's intentions at the end of World War II were nobel -- and despite the fact that the Charter paradigm still exists on paper -- a realistic assessment of the facts requires the conclusion that the paradigm has been rejected by states through their practices and thereby ceased to be international law.
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restrictionist theory, authoritative state practice, overt armed attack, anticipatory selfdefense, terrorist actors, forcible response, mixed conflict, limited collective security, actual armed attack, international legal scholars, legal absolutism, current legal regulation, attack threshold, extensive threat, intervening state, permissible force, humanitarian intervention, forcible action, state toleration, positivist period, other manner inconsistent, customary international law, terrorist bases, collective use, victim state Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United Nations, United States, General Assembly, Soviet Union, Second World War, Kellogg-Briand Pact, Dominican Republic, League of Nations, Reagan Administration, Gulf War, Middle East, East Pakistan, United Kingdom, Pol Pot, East Timor, Idi Amin, Khmer Rouge, San Francisco, Cold War, Great Britain, Achille Lauro, Central Africa, John Norton Moore, League Covenant, Legal Adviser New!
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restrictionist theory, authoritative state practice, overt armed attack, anticipatory selfdefense, terrorist actors, forcible response, mixed conflict, limited collective security, actual armed attack, international legal scholars, legal absolutism, current legal regulation, attack threshold, extensive threat, intervening state, permissible force, humanitarian intervention, forcible action, state toleration, positivist period, other manner inconsistent, customary international law, terrorist bases, collective use, victim state Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United Nations, United States, General Assembly, Soviet Union, Second World War, Kellogg-Briand Pact, Dominican Republic, League of Nations, Reagan Administration, Gulf War, Middle East, East Pakistan, United Kingdom, Pol Pot, East Timor, Idi Amin, Khmer Rouge, San Francisco, Cold War, Great Britain, Achille Lauro, Central Africa, John Norton Moore, League Covenant, Legal Adviser New!
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