Paperback / softback. New. This volume, which won an ASIL Certificate of Merit in 2002, critically examines the right of humanitarian intervention, asserted most spectacularly by NATO during its 1999 air strikes over Kosovo. ISBN 019925799x 9780199257997 [GB]

ISBN10: 019925799X, ISBN13: 9780199257997, [publisher: Oxford University Press Nov 2002] Softcover Neuware - The question of the legality of humanitarian intervention is, at first blush, a simple one. The Charter of the United Nations clearly prohibits the use of force, with the only exceptions being self-defence and enforcement actions authorized by the Security Council. There are, however, long-standing arguments that a right of unilateral intervention pre-existed the Charter.This book, which won the ASIL Certificate of Merit in 2002, begins with an examination of the genealogy of that right, and arguments that it might have survived the passage of the Charter, either through a loophole in Article 2(4) or as part of customary international law. It has also been argued that certain `illegitimate' regimes lose the attributes of sovereignty and thereby the protection given by the prohibition of the use of force. None of these arguments is found to have merit, either inprinciple or in the practice of states.A common justification for a right of unilateral humanitarian intervention concerns the failure of the collective security mechanism created after the Second World War. Chapters 4 and 5, therefore, examine Security Council activism in the 1990s, notable for the plasticity of the circumstances in which the Council was prepared to assert its primary responsibility for international peace and security, and the contingency of its actions on the willingness of ...
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Oxford Univ Pr, Date: 2003. Paperback. New. 328 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. 2003. Oxford Univ Pr ISBN 019925799X 9780199257997 [GB]

ISBN10: 019925799X, ISBN13: 9780199257997, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Softcover
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Oxford University Press, USA 2003 Revised ed. Trade paperback New This volume, which won an ASIL Certificate of Merit in 2002, critically examines the right of humanitarian intervention, asserted most spectacularly by NATO during its 1999 air strikes over Kosovo. Series: Oxford Monographs in International Law. Num Pages: 326 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: JPS; LBBR; LBBS; LBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 498. 2002. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.

ISBN10: 019925799X, ISBN13: 9780199257997, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Softcover This volume, which won an ASIL Certificate of Merit in 2002, critically examines the right of humanitarian intervention, asserted most spectacularly by NATO during its 1999 air strikes over Kosovo. Series: Oxford Monographs in International Law. Num Pages: 326 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: JPS; LBBR; LBBS; LBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 498. . 2002. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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ISBN10: 019925799X, ISBN13: 9780199257997, [publisher: Oxford Univ Pr] Softcover 328 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.
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ISBN10: 019925799X, ISBN13: 9780199257997, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Softcover
[DH, SE, Spain] [Publication Year: 2003]