The Use of Force in International Law

A Case-Based Approach

By: Tom Ruys (Editor), Olivier Corten (Editor), Alexandra Hofer (Editor)

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Hardcover | 26 April 2018

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The international law on the use of force is one of the oldest branches of international law. It is an area twinned with the emergence of international law as a concept in itself, and which sees law and politics collide.
The number of armed conflicts is equal only to the number of methodological approaches used to describe them.

Many violent encounters are well known. The Kosovo Crisis in 1999 and the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 spring easily to the minds of most scholars and academics, and gain extensive coverage in this text. Other conflicts, including the Belgian operation in Stanleyville, and the Ethiopian Intervention in Somalia, are often overlooked to our peril. Ruys and Corten's expert-written text compares over sixty different instances of the use of cross border force since the adoption of the UN Charter in 1945, from all out warfare to hostile encounters between individual units, targeted killings, and hostage rescue operations, to ask a complex question. How much authority does the power of precedent really have in the law of the use of force?

Industry Reviews

this volume will undoubtedly feature as a staple on reading lists, research agendas, and the bookshelves of all those interested in the field. Put simply, if you want to understand and write about this subject in a methodologically exacting manner, The Use of Force in International Law: A Case-Based Approach is a must have. * Chris O'Meara, Journal on the Use of Force and International Law *
an invaluable source in this field. They have assembled no less than 74 authors from a variety of regional and academic backgrounds, thus ensuring that a wide array of differing views are being heard. Everyone who has ever had the pleasure of working on an edited volume can only pay utmost respect for successfully completing such a Herculean task. * Ralph Janik, Austrian Review of International and European Law *
a rich resource for students and practitioners of the law on the use of force and is likely to remain the standard reference text for examples of "state practice" in this area of law for years to come. * Victor Kattan, Chinese Journal of International Law *

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