Newly revised, this textbook provides an authoritative conceptual and practical overview of international law governing the resort to force. Following an introd

When the United Nations Charter was adopted in 1945, states established a legal `paradigm' for regulating the recourse to armed force. In the years since then,

This book explores the whole of the large and controversial subject of the use of force in international law; it examines not only the use of force by states bu

The international law on the use of force is one of the oldest branches of international law. It is an area twinned with the emergence of international law as a

This Oxford Handbook provides an authoritative and comprehensive analysis of one of the most controversial areas of international law. Over seventy contributors