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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      July 2009
      October 2002
      ISBN:
      9780511494369
      9780521820134
      9780521104203
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511494369
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.504kg, 220 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.33kg, 220 Pages
      • Subjects:
      UN and International Organisations, Public International Law, Law, Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations
      Series:
      Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures (15)
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    Subjects:
    UN and International Organisations, Public International Law, Law, Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations
    Series:
    Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures (15)
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    The nations that drafted the UN Charter in 1945 clearly were more concerned about peace than about justice. As a result, the Charter prohibits all use of force by states except in the event of an armed attack or when authorised by the Security Council. This arrangement has only very imperfectly withstood the test of time and changing world conditions. In requiring states not to use force in self-defence until after they had become the object of an actual armed attack, the Charter failed to address a growing phenomenon of clandestine subversion and of instantaneous nuclear threats. Fortunately although the Charter is very hard to amend, the drafters did agree that it should be interpreted flexibly by the United Nations' principal political institutions. In this way the norms governing use of force in international affairs have been adapted to meet changing circumstances and new challenges. The book also relates these changes in law and practice to changing public values pertaining to the balance between maintaining peace and promoting justice.

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    "This is a book that will inform, captivate, and challenge generations of international lawyers, on several levels and in a variety of ways."
    --The American Journal of International Law

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