Under Attack makes a new contribution to the field of international relations in general and
the study of international law and armed conflict in particular, in two core ways. First, it links …

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 the rules on the use of …

The Use of Force and International Law offers an authoritative overview of international law
governing the resort to force. Looking through the prism of the contemporary challenges that …

Praise for previous edition:“... a comprehensive, meticulously-researched study of
contemporary international law governing the use of armed force in international …

This book is a discussion of key documents that explain the development, current status, and
relevance of the international law governing the initiation of military hostilities. International …

The book provides an approach that is more comprehensive than other contributions within
this field. It is located at the intersection of two central and challenging issues in international …

The prohibition of the use of force in international law is one of the major achievements of
international law in the past century. The attempt to outlaw war as a means of national policy …

War is at the core of the efforts to submit the use of military force in international relations to
legal rules. For millennia the decision to wage war was not subject to any legal restrictions …

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 …

Newly revised, this textbook provides an authoritative conceptual and practical overview of
international law governing the resort to force. Following an introductory chapter, with a …