This book provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the nature, content and scope of the rules regulating the use of force in international law as they

This volume of essays examines the development of political and legal thinking regarding the use of force in international relations. It provides an analysis of

Since the adoption of the UN Charter in 1945, the use of cross-border force has been frequent. This volume invites a range of experts to examine over sixty conf

When the United Nations Charter was adopted in 1945, states established a legal `paradigm' for regulating the recourse to armed force. In the years since then,

This book explores the whole of the large and controversial subject of the use of force in international law; it examines not only the use of force by states bu