Research Catalog

Title

Just war or just peace? : humanitarian intervention and international law / Simon Chesterman.

Author

Chesterman, Simon

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.

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Description

xxviii, 295 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

"Readership: Lawyers and academics working in international law, international relations, and war studies." "This book critically examines the right of humanitarian intervention, asserted most spectacularly by NATO during its 1999 air strikes over Kosovo. The UN Charter prohibits the unilateral use of force, but there have long been arguments that such a right might exist as an exception to this rule, or linked to the changing role of the Security Council. Through an analysis of these questions, the book puts NATO's action in Kosovo in its proper legal and historical perspective."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Oxford monographs in international law

Uniform Title

Oxford monographs in international law

Subject

• Humanitarian intervention
• Intervention (International law)

Note

• Series statement from jacket.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [260]-282) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The just war: the origins of humanitarian intervention -- The scourge of war: humanitarian intervention and the prohibition of the use of force in the UN Charter -- "You, the people": unilateral intervention to promote democracy -- The new interventionism: threats to international peace and security and Security Council actions under Chapter VII of the UN Charter -- Passing the baton: the delegation of Security Council enforcement powers from Kuwait to Kosovo -- Just war or just peace? Humanitarian intervention, inhumanitarian non-intervention, and other peace strategies.

ISBN

0199243379

LCCN

^^^00053033^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library