International law on the maintenance of peace : jus contra bellum /: jus contra bellum. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Robert Kolb.
• Authors: Kolb, Robert
• Contents: Foreword -- Part I: General features and historic development of the law of and against war -- jus contra bellum -- 1. General features -- 2. The historic development of limitations on recourse to force: main periods in which the jus ad bellum has come under pressure -- 3. Overview: state of the law in 1939 -- Part II: Powers of the organised collectivity (particularly the UN Security Council) -- 4. Scheme and structure of the United Nations Charter -- 5. Chapter VII of the Charter: coercive powers of the Security Council -- 6. Executing (by force?) a judgment of the International Court of Justice -- 7. The exercise of parallel competences by the Security Council and the International Court of Justice -- 8. The binding character of Security Council decisions under Chapter VII or under Article 94 [Section] 2 of the Charter; Article 50 of the Charter -- 9. Classic and robust peace-keeping operations -- 10. Chapter VII of the Charter and neutrality -- Part III: The prohibition against the use of force and exceptions for individual states -- 11. The prohibition against the use of force: Article 2 [Section] 4 of the Charter -- 12. Exceptions to the prohibition against the use of force -- 13. Peaceful change -- 14. General conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 172.42; LAW -- International; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General; International law; Just war doctrine; Peace; Public international law; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Peace; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General; Peace studies & conflict resolution; International humanitarian law; Just war doctrine; International law; Peace -- History; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781788112154; 1788112156
• Related ISBNs: 1788112148; 9781788112147
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from title screen (Elgaronline, viewed on August 28, 2018).
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