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

The Use of Force and International Law offers an authoritative overview of international law governing the resort to force. Looking through the prism of the con

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

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 provides a comprehensive and detailed analysis of the nature, content and scope of the rules regulating the use of force in international law as they