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The law against war : the prohibition on the use of force in contemporary international law / Olivier Corten ; with a foreword by Bruno Simma ; translation by Christopher Sutcliffe.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: French studies in international law ; v. 4.Publisher: Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub, 2010Description: xix, 569 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1841139424
  • 9781841139425
Contained works:
  • Corten, Olivier. Droit contre la guerre
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 341.6 22
LOC classification:
  • KZ6385 .C6813 2010
Contents:
Introduction -- A choice of method -- What do "use of force" and "threat of force" mean? -- Do the prohibition of the use of force and self-defence apply to nonstate actors? -- Can circumstances precluding unlawfulness be invoked to justify a use of force? -- Intervention by invitation -- Intervention authorised by the UN Security Council -- Self-defence -- A right of humanitarian intervention? -- Conclusion.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 555-557) and index.

Introduction -- A choice of method -- What do "use of force" and "threat of force" mean? -- Do the prohibition of the use of force and self-defence apply to nonstate actors? -- Can circumstances precluding unlawfulness be invoked to justify a use of force? -- Intervention by invitation -- Intervention authorised by the UN Security Council -- Self-defence -- A right of humanitarian intervention? -- Conclusion.

"[This book] is a translated and updated version of a book published in 2008 in French (Le droit contre la guerre, [Paris] : Pedone). The aim of this book is to study the prohibition of the use of armed force in contemporary positive international law."--P. [i].

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