ABSTRACT

The US has used force in some controversial situations, and perhaps due to its status of sole remaining superpower, has had less to fear in terms of repercussions. In reference to the practice of the global interpretive community, it has been discerned that the sources of the jus ad bellum have remained relatively robust to the influence and pressure of the US. The US claimed that the authorization bestowed upon it in UNSC Resolution 678 could be revived so as to enforce the disarmament obligations imposed upon Iraq at the end of the Gulf War. The unilateral enforcement of the collective will was not simply about the unilateral enforcement of UNSC resolutions. Additionally, some states in the enforcement of the no-fly zones in Iraq and the NATO Operation Allied Force in 1999 in the FRY, including the US, evidenced opinion necessitates as to a right of unilateral humanitarian intervention.