Limits of Law, Prerogatives of Power: Interventionism After Kosovo

ISBN-13: 9780312239015 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 250 str.

Michael J. Glennon

Opis

With the end of the Cold War, many believed that a new, more stableinternational legal order would emerge. But an enormous gap in values-most noticeably concerning armed intervention-has prevented that from happening. One group of nations continues to cling to the United Nations Charter's ban against intervention, while another group-led by NATO and the UN Security Council itself-openly violates that prohibition. In fact, the ban has been breached so often that it can no longer be regarded as authoritative. Whether the resulting legal vacuum can be filled is the overriding international question of the era.

Recenzje

'The best book written on international law and the use of force in the past forty years...' - American Political Science Review

'...eminently readable study goes far beyond identifying the irreconcilability of the Kosovo bombing campaing and the Charter...' - American Journal of International Law

'...its relentless expose of legal myth is a bracing antidote to...most international legal scholarship.' - Yale Journal of International Law

Spis treści

Kosovo and the United Nations Charter The Effect of State Custom and Practice on the Charter State Practice: The Charter and Interstate Violence Security Council Practice: The Charter and Intrastate Violence More 'Deniers,' New Scepticism The Implications of NATO's Actions in Kosovo Intervention in the Twenty-First Century Planning for the Past

O autorze

MICHAEL J. GLENNON is Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis, School of Law. From 1977 to 1980 he was Legal Counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Constitutional Diplomacy (Princeton University Press, 1990).