An analysis of the rules of international law regulating states'
use of force against other states.
This book is among the few to develop in detail the proposition
that international law on the subject of interstate force is better
derived from practice than from treaties. Mark Weisburd assembles
here a broad body of evidence to support practice-based rules of
law on the subject of force.
Analyses of a particular use of force by a state against another
state generally begin with the language of the Charter of the
United Nations. This approach is seriously flawed, argues Weisburd.
States do not, in fact, behave as the Charter requires. If the
legal rule regulating the use of force is the rule of the Charter,
then law is nearly irrelevant to the interstate use of force.
However, treaties like the Charter are not the only source of
public international law. Customary law, too, is binding on states.
If state behavior can be shown to conform generally to what amount
to tacit rules on the use of force, and if states generally enforce
such rules against other states, then the resulting pattern of
practice strongly supports the argument that the use of force is
affected by law at a very practical level.
This work aims to demonstrate that such patterns exist and to
explain their content. Weisburd discusses over one hundred
interstate conflicts that took place from 1945 through 1991. He
focuses on the behavior of the states using force and on the
reaction of third parties to the use of force. He concentrates upon
state practice rather than upon treaty law and does not assume a
priori that any particular policy goal can be attributed to the
international legal system, proceeding instead onthe assumption
that the system's goals can be determined only by examining the
workings of the system.
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