ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I
Introduction
chapter Chapter 2|16 pages
Historical overview: the development of the legal norms relating to the recourse to force
part II|42 pages
The United Nations Charter paradigm
part III|106 pages
Challenges to the Charter paradigm
part IV|28 pages
Conclusion: beyond the Charter paradigm