1st Edition

International Law and Civil Wars Intervention and Consent

By Eliav Lieblich Copyright 2013
286 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

304 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the international law of forcible intervention in civil wars, in particular the role of party-consent in affecting the legality of such intervention. In modern international law, it is a near consensus that no state can use force against another – the main exceptions being self-defence and actions mandated by a UN Security Council resolution. However, one more potential... Read more

Introduction  1. The Dynamics of Consensual Intervention  2. The Concepts of Intervention and Internal Armed Conflict  3. The Modalities of Forcible Intervention  4. Internal Armed Conflicts and Consent in the War Prerogative Era and Effectiveness as a Source of Rights  5. Intervention and Consent in the Inter-War Period  6. The Preference of Governments: From Dichotomy to Rebuttable Presumption  7. The Scope of Government Consent Power: General Thresholds and the Effective Control Test  8. From Effective Control over Territory to Effective Protection of Civilians  9. Consent Power, Democracy, Human Rights and Self-Determination  10. Consent by Opposition Groups: Between Recognition and Humanitarian Intervention; Between Legality and Legitimacy 

Biography

Eliav Lieblich is Lecturer (US Assistant Professor) at the Radzyner School of Law, the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya, Israel. He holds a doctorate from Columbia Law School.

'International Law and Civil Wars is exceptionally thorough and useful. It is easy to recommend to scholars from social science and legal disciplines interested in the nexus of international law and civil war.' - Hamish Clift, LSE Review of Books 2013