Recourse to force : state action against threats and armed attacks / Thomas M. Franck.
2002
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Recourse to force : state action against threats and armed attacks / Thomas M. Franck.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Description
1 online resource (xii, 205 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Series
Hersch Lauterpacht memorial lectures ; 15.
Formatted Contents Note
The UN's capacity for adapting to radical changes of circumstance
Use of force by the United Nations
The original parameters of self-defence
Self-defence against state-sponsored terrorists and infiltrators
Self-defence against ideological subversion
Self-defence against attacks on citizens abroad
Anticipatory self-defence
Countermeasures and self-help
The 'purely humanitarian' intervention
What, eat the cabin boy? Uses of force that are illegal but justifiable.
Use of force by the United Nations
The original parameters of self-defence
Self-defence against state-sponsored terrorists and infiltrators
Self-defence against ideological subversion
Self-defence against attacks on citizens abroad
Anticipatory self-defence
Countermeasures and self-help
The 'purely humanitarian' intervention
What, eat the cabin boy? Uses of force that are illegal but justifiable.
Summary
The nations that drafted the UN Charter in 1945 clearly were more concerned about peace than about justice. As a result, the Charter prohibits all use of force by states except in the event of an armed attack or when authorised by the Security Council. This arrangement has only very imperfectly withstood the test of time and changing world conditions. In requiring states not to use force in self-defence until after they had become the object of an actual armed attack, the Charter failed to address a growing phenomenon of clandestine subversion and of instantaneous nuclear threats. Fortunately although the Charter is very hard to amend, the drafters did agree that it should be interpreted flexibly by the United Nations' principal political institutions. In this way the norms governing use of force in international affairs have been adapted to meet changing circumstances and new challenges. The book also relates these changes in law and practice to changing public values pertaining to the balance between maintaining peace and promoting justice.
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Cambridge Core.
Language
English
ISBN
9780511494369 ebook
9780521820134 (hardback)
9780521104203 (paperback)
9780521820134 (hardback)
9780521104203 (paperback)
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