Add to ORKGThe need for more dramatic targets has led to the new and somewhat exaggerated emphasis on a unilateral right of pre-emptive self-defence by the United States. What is most striking about the new US policy is that it portrays state-sponsored terrorism and rogue states possessing weapons of mass destruction as a new problem, and unilateral action as the only way of dealing with them. It is dangerous to marginalise the UN and increase the role of multilateral global coalitions or unilateral action in policing “evil-doing” as this has the potential to supplant what initially was designed as the role of the United Nations. If decisions regarding the use of force become nationalised, this may lead to anarchic, piecemeal, random, and unilateral e...
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The US has rewritten the rules of self-defence, which may well be the start of a global shift, write...
When representatives of fifty countries assembled in San Francisco in 1945 to draw up the United Nat...
The old truism, that international law is not a suicide pact, is forceful in an age of destructive w...
The war on terrorism has dramatically impacted the direction of U.S. foreign policy, as well as the ...
The hard reality is that the United States has declared war on a tactic—terror. The nation must acce...
When the United Nations was created in 1945, its main purpose was to deal with threats to internatio...
Does the United States have the right to defend itself by striking first, or must it wait until an a...
In the international law system, internal mechanisms are the appropriate responses to terrorist acts...
With the end of the Cold War, many in America and throughout the industrialized world came to take n...
No state, including the United States, should take a heavy-handed approach toward the use of armed f...
The legal structure of warfare is a dramatic example of a changing regime, even while its fundamenta...
The attacks on September 11, 2001 marked the beginning of the War on Terror. A conclusive body of e...
This article seeks to sketch generally the issues that America’s ‘for us or against us’ attitude in ...
Soon after September 11, President Bush declared a global war on terrorism and members of terrorist ...
The UN Charter reflects the drafters’ singular focus on creating a political system to govern confli...
The US has rewritten the rules of self-defence, which may well be the start of a global shift, write...
When representatives of fifty countries assembled in San Francisco in 1945 to draw up the United Nat...
The old truism, that international law is not a suicide pact, is forceful in an age of destructive w...
The war on terrorism has dramatically impacted the direction of U.S. foreign policy, as well as the ...
The hard reality is that the United States has declared war on a tactic—terror. The nation must acce...
When the United Nations was created in 1945, its main purpose was to deal with threats to internatio...
Does the United States have the right to defend itself by striking first, or must it wait until an a...
In the international law system, internal mechanisms are the appropriate responses to terrorist acts...
With the end of the Cold War, many in America and throughout the industrialized world came to take n...
No state, including the United States, should take a heavy-handed approach toward the use of armed f...
The legal structure of warfare is a dramatic example of a changing regime, even while its fundamenta...
The attacks on September 11, 2001 marked the beginning of the War on Terror. A conclusive body of e...
This article seeks to sketch generally the issues that America’s ‘for us or against us’ attitude in ...
Soon after September 11, President Bush declared a global war on terrorism and members of terrorist ...