Research Catalog

Title

Governing the use-of-force in international relations : the post 9/11 US challenge on international law / Aiden Warren, RMIT University, Australia; Ingvild Bode, United Nations University, Japan.

Author

Warren, Aiden

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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Additional Authors

Bode, Ingvild

Description

x, 234 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"This book examines US recourse to military force in the post-9/11 era. In particular, it evaluates the extent to which the Bush and Obama administrations viewed legitimizing the greater use-of-force as a necessary solution to thwart the security threat presented by global terrorist networks and WMD proliferation. The Bush administration's use-of-force policy centered on advocating preemptive self-defence options, which were really preventive in nature. For example, it is argued that they responded to potential long-term threats based on ambiguous evidence. Central to this cloaking of preventive options in the more legitimate language of preemptive self-defence was an expanded notion of what counts as an imminent threat. Despite the Obama administration's avowal to multilateralism and professed US adherence to global norms, it did not expressly reject his predecessor's reasoning on the preemptive/preventive use-of-force. Indeed, the Administration's counter-terrorist campaign against Al Qaeda and in particular its drone program made the use-of-force in self-defence a widespread, regular, even commonplace occurrence during Obama's tenure. Despite being positioned at different points on the political spectrum, the book therefore concludes that Bush and Obama have chosen a remarkably similar approach towards expanding the use-of-force in self-defence. "--

Series Statement

New security challenges series

Uniform Title

New security challenges series.

Subject

• Intervention (International law)
• Unilateral acts (International law)
• International law > United States
• Preemptive attack (Military science)
• Self-defense (International law)
• Internal security > United States
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / International Security
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Intelligence
• Internal security
• International law
• Military policy
• United States > Military policy
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-229) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- 1. The International Legal Paradigm: The UN Charter jus ad bellum Regime -- 2. Self-Defence in International Law: Preemptive/Preventive Requisites -- 3. Preventive and Preemptive Self-Defence in US National Security Policy: A Brief History -- 4. Bush and the Use-of-Force -- 5. Obama and the Use-of-Force -- 6. The Rise of Drones -- Conclusion: the Use-of-Force and the Making of Hegemonic International Law: from Bush to Obama.

Call Number

JFD 16-1257

ISBN

• 9781137411433 (hardback)
• 1137411430 (hardback)

LCCN

2014023152

OCLC

881469646

Author

Warren, Aiden, author.

Title

Governing the use-of-force in international relations : the post 9/11 US challenge on international law / Aiden Warren, RMIT University, Australia; Ingvild Bode, United Nations University, Japan.

Publisher

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New security challenges series

New security challenges series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-229) and index.

Added Author

Bode, Ingvild, author.

Research Call Number

JFD 16-1257