Terry D. Gill, Kinga Tibori-Szabo

Use of Force and the International Legal System (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009407373
• Artikelnr.: 70909851

Autorenporträt

Terry D. Gill is Emeritus Professor of Military Law at the University of Amsterdam and is a globally recognised authority on the law of armed conflict. He is founder and co-director of the Research Program on the Law of Armed Conflict and Military Operations (LACMO) at the Amsterdam Centre for International Law and is co-convenor of the Netherlands Research Forum on the Law of Armed Conflict and Peace Operations (LACPO).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Development of the Contemporary Jus ad Bellum in International Law:
1. Introduction; 2. From just war to the great war; 3. From the regulation
of war to the prohibition on the use of force; Part II. Scope and Content
of the Contemporary Jus ad bellum: 4. The prohibition on the use or threat
of force; 5. The use of force in the un collective security system:
maintenance and restoration of international peace and security through
collective measures; 6. The right of self-defence: essence, function and
legal foundation, requirements for exercise, scope and modalities of
application; Part III. Controversies and Contested Justifications for the
Use of Force: 7. Humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to
protect; 8. The use of force and the rescue and evacuation of nationals; 9.
Armed reprisals and the law on the use of force; 10. The use of force and
weapons of mass destruction; 11. New technologies of warfare and the law on
the use of force; Part IV. The Use of Force within the Wider Legal
Landscape: 12. The use of force as an attribute of state sovereignty; 13.
The use of force in the international commons; 14. The relationship of the
law on the use of force with the law of armed conflict and human rights
law; 15. International responsibility for the unlawful use of force:
states, organizations, armed groups and individuals; Part V. Concluding
Remarks: 16. Conclusions.