Recourse to Force: State Action Against Threats and Armed Attacks

by Thomas M. Franck

Book Overview

The nations that drafted the UN Charter in 1945 clearly were more concerned about peace than about justice. As a result, the Charter prohibits all use of force by states except in the event of an armed attack or when authorised by the Security Council. This arrangement has only very imperfectly withstood the test of time and changing world conditions. In requiring states not to use force in self-defence until after they had become the object of an...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521104203
• ISBN13: 9780521104203
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"