Franck, Thomas M.

Recourse to Force : State Action against Threats and Armed Attacks. - 1 online resource (219 pages) - Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures ; v.15 . - Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures .

Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The United Nations' capacity for adapting to radical changes of circumstance -- The legacy of Sir Hersch Lauterpacht -- The use of force under the UN Charter system -- Adaptability of the Charter as a quasi-constitutional instrument -- War in the pre-Charter era -- The Charter's constraints on violence -- Anticipated problems in banning violence: between the desiderata of perpetual peace and perfect justice -- The drafters' vision -- 2 Use of force by the United Nations -- The Charter and uses of force -- Collective use of armed force: original intent -- The practice: uncoupling Article 42 from Article 43 -- The role of the General Assembly: original intent -- Adapting General Assembly powers: "Uniting for Peace" -- Inventing "Chapter 6 1/2" -- Expanding the concept of threats to the peace, breaches of the peace, and acts of aggression -- 3 The original parameters of self-defense -- Self-defense: the drafting history -- Analyzing practice of collective self-defense -- 4 Self-defense against state-sponsored terrorists and infiltrators -- Israel-Egypt (1956) -- OAS-Dominican Republic (1960) -- Israel-Lebanon (1982) -- US-Nicaragua (1980-1986) -- Turkey-Iraq (1995) -- The law of countermeasures against terrorism -- 5 Self-defense against ideological subversion -- Warsaw Pact-Hungary (1956) -- US-Dominican Republic (1965) -- USSR-Czechoslovakia (1968) -- Conclusions -- 6 Self-defense against attacks on citizens abroad -- Belgium-The Congo (1960, 1964) -- Turkey-Cyprus (1964) -- US-Dominican Republic (1965) -- Israel-Uganda (1976) -- US-Grenada (1983) -- US-Egypt (1985-1986) -- US-Libya (1986) -- US-Panama (1989) -- US attack on Iraqi Intelligence Headquarters (1993) -- US-Afghanistan and Sudan (1998) -- Conclusions. 7 Anticipatory self-defense -- The typology -- Anticipatory use of force in self-defense as a legal concept -- Anticipatory self-defense: post-Charter practice -- The Cuba missile crisis (1962-1963) -- Israeli-Arab War (1967) -- Israel-Iraq (nuclear reactor) (1981) -- Conclusions -- 8 Countermeasures and self-help -- The "self-help" dilemma -- Self-help: post-Charter practice -- Israel-Argentina (1960) -- India-Portugal (1961) -- Turkey-Cyprus (1974) -- Morocco (Mauritania)-Spain (1975) -- Indonesia-East Timor (1975) -- Argentina-UK (Malvinas/Falklands) (1982) -- Conclusions -- 9 The "purely humanitarian" intervention -- Definition -- Humanitarian intervention: post-Charter practice -- India-Bangla Desh (1971) -- Tanzania-Uganda (1978) -- Vietnam-Kampuchea (1978-1979) -- France-Central African Empire (1979) -- France, UK, and US-Iraq (the Kurds, 1991) -- ECOMOG-Liberia, Sierra Leone (1989-1999) -- NATO-Yugoslavia (Kosovo) (1999) -- Conclusions -- 10 What, eat the cabin boy? Uses of force that are illegal but justifiable -- Index.

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

9780511157950


Self-defense (International law).


Electronic books.

KZ6374 .F73 2002

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