The Changing Postwar International Legal Regime: The Role Played by Japan

by Wakamizu Tsutsui

In view of the practices of the Second World War, international society could no longer be under the principles of traditional international law. The United Nations was conceived to preserve peace through the execution of "no use of force". To meet the reality of wartime collaboration in each region, it adopted self-defense as the basis for individual action. The postwar international legal order has been realized through self-defense as an intermediate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9041118470
• ISBN13: 9789041118479
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 10.1"