1st Edition
International Law and the Use of Armed Force The UN Charter and the Major Powers
By Joel Westra
Copyright 2007
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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Since the UN Charter came into effect in 1945, there have been numerous incidents in which one or more of the five major powers (at least arguably) violated the Charter's Article 2(4) prohibition of force. Such incidents notwithstanding, this book demonstrates how the Charter restrains the major powers' military actions. As an instrument of international order, the Charter provides a framework of... Read more
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.
Biography
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.
'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
