International Law and the Use of Force: Beyond the... - Arend, Anthony Clark

Taylor & Francis

Law text written specifically for students of international relations, tracing the paradigmatic shift in regulation of the use of armed force since 1945, and the implications for contemporary international law and practice. > \nWhen the United Nations Charter was adopted in 1945, states established a legal `paradigm' for regulating the recourse to armed force. In the years since then, however, significant developments have challenged the paradigm's validity, causing a `pardigmatic shift'. International Law and the Use of Force traces this shift and explores its implications for contemporary international law and practice. > Part I Introduction; Chapter 1 International law and the use of force; Chapter 2 Historical overview: the development of the legal norms relating to the recourse to force; Part II The United Nations Charter paradigm; Chapter 3 The United Nations Charter framework for the resort to force; Chapter 4 Collective use of force under the United Nations Charter; Par.