ABSTRACT
Recent events have brought to the fore the role of third state remedies under internationallaw. In its Judgment on the Merits in the Case Concerning Military and Paramilitary Activities in and Against Nicaragua, the International Court of lustice ("ICl") considered whether the Uni ted States had the unilateral right to use force in response to Nicaragua's actions against other Central American States. 1 The Court held that the United States had no such unilateral right.2 The ICl, however, allowed that third states may have the right to take countermeasures under some circumstances.3
