Since the adoption of the UN Charter in 1945, there has been almost continuous debate
regarding the provisions governing the international use of force. On the one hand, the UN …

As World War II was coming to an end, the major allied powers created the United Nations
with the lofty ambition of establishing a global international organization to manage …

It is hardly groundbreaking to suggest that the international legal order is enduring the
corrosion of one of its most fundamental pillars: the prohibition on the use of force. Each …

Page 1 THE NON-USE OF FORCE IN INTERNATIONAL LAW Page 2 A number of the articles
contained in this volume were published previously in issue 1 of Coexistence, Volume 26, 1989 …

The book tobe presented here could hardly have come more timely and welcome. Not only
does it address a central question of international law, but one that deserves new discussion …

Does the UN Charter still provide a normative order for the international use of force? The
question raises more issues than can possibly be answered—which is a sure sign that it is a …

Few legal issues are of greater significance to the interests of the United States, and of
people everywhere, than the rules and the practices of nations concerning the use of force …

While the United States has given a lot of thought to the use of force since September 11,
200], our view of the fundamental principles regarding when force may be used and the …

Twenty-five years ago, the Allied nations gathered at San Francisco in the warming glow of
victory and signed a solemn treaty giving effect to their determination “to save succeeding …

1. The development of the rights and duties imposed on states by internationallaw in respect
of the use of force has, in the space of eighty years, been greatly transformed, and the legal …