Necessity, proportionality, and the use of force by states / Judith Gardam.
There has been considerable debate in the international community as to the legality of the forceful actions in Kosovo in 1999, Afghanistan in 2002 and Iraq in 2003 under the United Nations Charter. There has been consensus, however, that the use of force in all these situations had to be both neces...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in international and comparative law (Cambridge, England : 1996).
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| Online Access: | Cambridge Books on Core Contributor biographical information |
| Summary: | There has been considerable debate in the international community as to the legality of the forceful actions in Kosovo in 1999, Afghanistan in 2002 and Iraq in 2003 under the United Nations Charter. There has been consensus, however, that the use of force in all these situations had to be both necessary and proportional. Against the background of these recent armed conflicts, this book offers the first comprehensive assessment of the twin requirements of necessity and proportionality as legal restraints on the forceful actions of States. It also provides a much-needed examination of the relationship between proportionality in the law on the use of force and international humanitarian law. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 259 pages). |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0521173493 9780521173490 0511264631 9780511264634 0511266073 9780511266072 0511494173 9780511494178 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511494178 |