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Limits of Law, Prerogatives of Power
Michael Glennon
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Description for Limits of Law, Prerogatives of Power
Paperback. Num Pages: 260 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JPS; JPSN; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 338.
NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia was justified. NATO violated the United Nations Charter - but nations have used armed force so often that the ban on non-defensive use of force has been cast into doubt. Dangerous cracks in the international legal order have surfaced - widened, ironically, by the UN Security Council itself, which has ridden roughshod over the Charter's ban on intervention. Yet nations remain hopelessly divided on what the rules should be. An unplanned geopolitical order has thus emerged - posing serious dilemmas for American policy-makers in a world where intervention will be judged more by wisdom than by ... Read more
NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia was justified. NATO violated the United Nations Charter - but nations have used armed force so often that the ban on non-defensive use of force has been cast into doubt. Dangerous cracks in the international legal order have surfaced - widened, ironically, by the UN Security Council itself, which has ridden roughshod over the Charter's ban on intervention. Yet nations remain hopelessly divided on what the rules should be. An unplanned geopolitical order has thus emerged - posing serious dilemmas for American policy-makers in a world where intervention will be judged more by wisdom than by ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
260
Condition
New
Number of Pages
250
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349386772
SKU
V9781349386772
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About Michael Glennon
MICHAEL J. GLENNON is Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis, School of Law. From 1977 to 1980 he was Legal Counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including Constitutional Diplomacy (Princeton University Press, 1990).
Reviews for Limits of Law, Prerogatives of Power
'The best book written on international law and the use of force in the past forty years...' - American Political Science Review '...eminently readable study goes far beyond identifying the irreconcilability of the Kosovo bombing campaing and the Charter...' - American Journal of International Law '...its relentless expose of legal myth is a bracing ... Read more