The Use of Force in International Law 1st Edition A Case-Based Approach

Description

• Author(s)
  Tom Ruys; ‎Olivier Corten; ‎Alexandra Hofer
• Publisher
  OUP Oxford
• Format
  PDF
• Print ISBN
  9780198784364, 0198784368
• eText ISBN
  9780198784364, 0198784368
• Edition
  1st
• Copyright
• Details
  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?