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International Law and the Use of Force by States

Ian Brownlie

Abstract

The author of this book has confined himself to the pursuit, on historic lines, of an estimation of the extent of legal prohibition of the use of force by states. He includes the deliberations and findings of political organs of the League of Nations and the United Nations, as well as a study of the quality of prohibition of force, making some indication of relevant corollaries.

Keywords: prohibition, force, states, League of Nations, United Nations

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 1963 Print ISBN-13: 9780198251583
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2012 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198251583.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Ian Brownlie, author
University of Oxford, and Fellow of All Souls College

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Preface

Abbreviations and Periodicals Referred to in Text and Bibliography

Part I An Historical Exposition of the Legal Regulation of the Use of Force by States

Chapter I The Historical Experience Prior to 1815

Chapter II The Customary Law of the Period 1815–1914 Some New Developments: Arbitration and Treaties for Pacific Settlement

Chapter III First World War. The Versailles and Other Treaties: War Guilt and Reparations

Chapter IV The Covenant of the League of Nations

Chapter V Illegal War, Aggressive War, and Aggression: The Major Legal Developments of the Period 1920 to 1945

Chapter VI New Foundations: The United Nations Charter and the Bases of the Law After 1945

Part II The Content of the Illegality of the Use of Force: The Delictual and Criminal Aspects

Chapter VII Use of Force as a State Delict: The Obligation to Make Reparation

Chapter VIII Criminal Responsibility for the Unlawful Use of Force in Inter-State Relations

Chapter IX Charges of Crimes Against Peace Arising Out of the Second World War

Chapter X Crimes Against Peace: Definition and Bases of Responsibility

Part III Legal Justifications for the Use of Force in the Modern Law

Chapter XI Problems of Transition: The Legal Régime in the Period 1920 to 1930

Chapter XII The Right of Legitimate Defence. Doctrine and State Practice in the Period 1920 to 1939

Chapter XIII The Right of Self-Defence in the Period after the Second World War

Chapter XIV Some Problems Relating to Self-Help in the Modern Law

Chapter XV Forcible Anticipation of a Breach of Neutrality

Chapter XVI The Consent of States

Chapter XVII International Action

Chapter XVIII Other Justifications for Resort to Force of Doubtful Validity

Part IV Problems of a General Nature Relating to the Use of Force

Chapter XIX The Question of Defining Aggression

Chapter XX The Use or Threat of Force and The Concept of Armed Attack

Chapter XXI Some Problems of Responsibility

Chapter XXII The Authors of and the Entities Protected from Unlawful Resort to Force

Chapter XXIII The Legal Significance of the State of War In the Period Since 1920 and the Problem of Defining War

Chapter XXIV The Illegality of the Use of Force: The Question of Corollaries in the Law

Chapter XXV The Principle of Non-Recognition

Chapter XXVI Conclusions

End Matter

Table of Cases (According to Countries and Courts and Tribunals, and with References to Law Reports or Other Sources)

Table of Cases (Alphabetical)

Table of Treaties

General Sources of State Practice

Official Sources Referred To

Table of Documents

List of Documents of the International Law Commission

Table of National Legislation

General Studies of the Covenant of the League of Nations

General Studies of the Charter of the United Nations

Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Law Relating to the Use of Force by States

Subject Index