War, aggression and self-defence
"War has plagued homo sapiens since the dawn of recorded history and, at almost any particular moment in the annals of the species, it appears to be raging in at least a portion of the globe (frequently, in many places at one and the same time). War has consistently been a, perhaps the, most br...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press ,
c2012
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| Edition: | 5th ed |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. What is war?
- 2. The course of war
- 3. A historical perspective of the legal status of war
- 4. The contemporary prohibition of the use of inter-state force
- 5. The crime of aggression
- 6. Controversial consequences of the change in the legal
- 7. The concept of self-defense
- 8. The modalities of individual self-defense
- 9. Collective self-defense
- 10. Collective security