International Law and the Use of Armed Force: The Un Charter and the Major Powers

ISBN-13: 9780415495158 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 240 str.

Westra Joel

Opis

First published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Recenzje

'Westra...has written a valuable book.  The greatest value lies in the design of a creative and original theoretical framework for analysing the problem of great-power compliance with the ground rules of the post-1945 legal order.'
Alfred Van Staden, Leiden Journal of International Law

Spis treści

1. The functioning of the UN Charter as a restraint on military action 2. The UN Charter and legal argumentation 3. Persuasion, legitimation, and restraint 4. The impact of the UN Charter on US military intervention in the Caribbean region, 1953–61 5. The impact of the UN Charter on Anglo-French military intervention in Egypt, 1956 6. The impact of the UN Charter on Soviet military intervention in Hungary, 1956 7. The impact of the UN Charter on US–British military intervention in Iraq, 1990–98 8. The impact of the UN Charter on US–British military intervention in Iraq, 1999–2003 9. The continued salience of the UN Charter system. Appendix A: Case selection and methodology. Appendix B: Case coding. Appendix C: Case overview. Notes. References. Index.

O autorze

Joel H. Westra is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. he holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago.