The Use of Force in International Law: A Case-Based Approach

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Tom Ruys (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, University of Ghent) Olivier Corten (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, Université Libre de Bruxelles)

The Use of Force in International Law

A Case-Based Approach

Tom Ruys (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, University of Ghent), Olivier Corten (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, Université Libre de Bruxelles), Alexandra Hofer (Doctoral Researcher, Doctoral Researcher, University of Ghent)

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Oxford University Press
26 April 2018

International relations; Warfare & defence; International law of territory & statehood; International humanitarian law; Responsibility of states & other entities

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 concept in itself, and which sees law and politics collide.

The number of armed conflicts is equal only to the number of methodological approaches used to describe them.

Many violent encounters are well known. The Kosovo Crisis in 1999 and the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 spring easily to the minds of most scholars and academics, and gain extensive coverage in this text. Other conflicts, including the Belgian operation in Stanleyville, and the Ethiopian Intervention in Somalia, are often overlooked to our peril. Ruys and Corten's expert-written text compares over sixty different instances of the use of cross border force since the adoption of the UN Charter in 1945, from all out warfare to hostile encounters between individual units, targeted killings, and hostage rescue operations, to ask a complex question. How much authority does the power of precedent really have in the law of the use of force?

Edited by: Tom Ruys (Professor of Law Professor of Law University of Ghent), Olivier Corten (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, Université Libre de Bruxelles), Alexandra Hofer (Doctoral Researcher, Doctoral Researcher, University of Ghent)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 253mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 59mm
Weight: 2g
ISBN: 9780198784357
ISBN 10: 019878435X
Pages: 962
Publication Date: 26 April 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Olivier Corten teaches public international law at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, and is co-director of the Revue Belge de Droit International. He is the author or co-author of ten books and of more than one hundred and fifty articles. Tom Ruys studied Law and International Relations at the Universities of Ghent, Nottingham, and Leuven. He joined the faculty of law at the University of Ghent as a tenure-track professor within the department of public international law. Tom Ruys is the author of several publications and has been awarded the Lieber Prize by the American Society of International Law. He is a member of the International Law Association's Committee on the Use of Force, Co-Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of the Use of Force and International Law, and a member of the editorial board of the Revue Belge de Droit International. Assistant editor Alexandra Hofer is a Doctoral Researcher in the Faculty of Law, in the Department of European, Public and International Law at the University of Ghent.

Reviews for The Use of Force in International Law: A Case-Based Approach

this volume will undoubtedly feature as a staple on reading lists, research agendas, and the bookshelves of all those interested in the field. Put simply, if you want to understand and write about this subject in a methodologically exacting manner, The Use of Force in International Law: A Case-Based Approach is a must have. * Chris O'Meara, Journal on the Use of Force and International Law * an invaluable source in this field. They have assembled no less than 74 authors from a variety of regional and academic backgrounds, thus ensuring that a wide array of differing views are being heard. Everyone who has ever had the pleasure of working on an edited volume can only pay utmost respect for successfully completing such a Herculean task. * Ralph Janik, Austrian Review of International and European Law * a rich resource for students and practitioners of the law on the use of force and is likely to remain the standard reference text for examples of state practice in this area of law for years to come. * Victor Kattan, Chinese Journal of International Law *