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This book is a contemporary, comprehensive, and accessible text on the use of force and international law suitable for a range of audiences.

This detailed reference work on international law has been designed for legal scholars, practising international lawyers government legal advisers, and advanced students of ...

This book addresses the authority of the UN Security Council to regulate the use of force. In particular, it examines the question of whether the present composition, functions ...

This book provides a comprehensive, dispassionate empirical analysis and assessment of the discernible impact that the US has had upon the jus ad bellum in the post-Cold War ...

One million people in the UK alone demonstrated against the 2003 invasion of Iraq. A crucial element of the opposition to the war was the lack of a clear legal basis. This is ...

Since the adoption of the UN Charter in 1945, the use of cross-border force has been frequent. This volume invites a range of experts to examine over sixty conflicts, from ...

The prohibition of the use of force in international law is one of the major achievements of international law in the past century. The attempt to outlaw war as a means of ...

The book brings together leading scholars and practitioners to provide the definitive analysis of the legal, historical, and political context in which the Security Council ...