Thomas M. Franck

Recourse to Force

State Action Against Threats and Armed Attacks

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book relates changes in law and practice regarding the UN Charter of 1945 to changing public values.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9780521104203
• ISBN-10: 0521104203
• Artikelnr.: 25686783

Autorenporträt

Murray and Ida Becker Professor of Law, New York University School of Law Wolfgang Friedmann Memorial Award 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The United Nations' capacity for adapting to radical changes of circumstance
Part II. Use of force by the United Nations
Part III. The original parameters of self-defence
Part IV. Self-defence against state-sponsored terrorists and infiltrators
Part V. Self-defence against ideological subversion
Part VI. Self-defence against attacks on citizens abroad
Part VII. Anticipatory self-defence
Part VIII. Countermeasures and self-help
Part IX. The 'purely humanitarian' intervention
Part X. What, eat the cabin boy? Uses of force that are illegal but justifiable
Index.