International Law and the Use of Force: Beyond the U.N. Charter Paradigm

by Anthony Clark Arend, Robert J. Beck

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, however, significant developments have challenged the paradigm's validity, causing a `pardigmatic shift'. International Law and the Use of Force traces this shift and explores its implications for contemporary international law and practice.

Genres: Politics

288 pages, Paperback

First published June 25, 1993