Yoram Dinstein (Tel-Aviv University)

War, Aggression and Self-Defence

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Produktbeschreibung

War, Aggression and Self-Defence is an indispensable guide to international legal issues of war and peace, the crime of aggression, self-defence and its trigger, armed attack, and the different modalities of self-defence, as well as enforcement measures taken under the aegis of a binding decision of the Security Council.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 6th rev.Ed.
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 637g
• ISBN-13: 9781316641668
• ISBN-10: 131664166X
• Artikelnr.: 48033131

Autorenporträt

Yoram Dinstein is Professor Emeritus at Tel-Aviv University. He is a former President of the University, as well as former Rector and former Dean of the Faculty of Law. He served twice as the Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law at the US Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island. He was also a Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute of International Law in Heidelberg, Germany, a Meltzer Visiting Professor of Law at New York University and a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. He is a Member of the Institute of International Law.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Legal Nature of War: 1. Armed conflict, war and neutrality; 2. The course of war; Part II. The Illegality of War: 3. Historical perspective of the legal status of war; 4. The contemporary prohibition of the use of inter-state force; 5. The crime of aggression; 6. Controversial consequences of the change in the legal status of war; Part III. Exceptions to the Prohibition of the Use of Inter-State Force: 7. The concept of self-defence; 8. The modalitIies of individual self-defence; 9. Collective self-defence; 10. Collective security.