War, Aggression and Self-Defence

ISBN-13: 9781316641668 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 440 str.

Yoram Dinstein

Opis

Yoram Dinstein's influential War, Aggression and Self-Defence is an indispensable guide to the international legal issues of war and peace.

Spis treści

Part I. The Legal Nature of War: 1. Armed conflict, war and neutrality; 2. The course of war; Part II. The Illegality of War: 3. Historical perspective of the legal status of war; 4. The contemporary prohibition of the use of inter-state force; 5. The crime of aggression; 6. Controversial consequences of the change in the legal status of war; Part III. Exceptions to the Prohibition of the Use of Inter-State Force: 7. The concept of self-defence; 8. The modalitIies of individual self-defence; 9. Collective self-defence; 10. Collective security.