The study of international law has been an element of the
curriculum of the Naval War College since the founding of the
College, and it was to fill the need for textbooks focusing on
practical, law-related naval issues that the College published its
first book, in 1895. That work-a collection of edited and expanded
lectures given in Newport by Freeman Snow, professor of
international law at Harvard, published as International Law: A
Manual Based upon Lectures Delivered at the Naval War College-was
seminal in two ways. First, it was for its compiler, Commander
Charles Stockton of the Naval War College's faculty, that the
College's prestigious chair in international law is named. Second,
the book itself, which was soon canonical, was the forerunner of
the International Law Series, of which seventy-nine volumes by, or
collecting the work of, major scholars have appeared, with more in
preparation. The Naval War College Review in its time took up the
challenge. In the May 1949 issue (Information Service for Officers,
as it was first known, having been founded only in October 1948),
its editors published "Legal Foundations of International
Relations," by Manley O. Hudson. At this writing, the index of the
journal contains seventy-one entries under the heading
"International Law," and the continual flow of manuscripts from
international lawyers testifies that the Review is well established
in that field. It is no surprise, then, that when the Naval War
College Press established the Newport Papers monograph series in
the early 1990s, international law quickly found a place there. The
third Newport Paper, published in October 1992, was Horace B.
Robertson, Jr.'s, The "New" Law of the Sea and the Law of Armed
Conflict at Sea; the eleventh, by Frank Gibson Goldman, was The
International Legal Ramifications of United States
Counter-Proliferation Strategy: Problems and Prospects (April
1997), and number fifteen was International Law and Naval War: The
Effect of Marine Safety and Pollution Conventions during
International Armed Conflict, by Dr. Sonja Ann Jozef
Boelaert-Suominen (December 2000). So it is with particular
satisfaction that we sustain that commitment with this Newport
Paper, the twenty-fifth in the series, and the first of our 2006
program. James P. Terry-a former Principal Deputy Assistant
Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; former legal
counsel to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, then General
Colin Powell; a retired colonel, U.S. Marine Corps; and today
chairman of the Board of Veterans' Appeals, in the Department of
Veterans Affairs-is familiar to Press subscribers as the author of
four articles (going back to 1986) in the Review. In The Regulation
of International Coercion Colonel Terry has undertaken a major
task, an assessment-from a U.S. policy perspective and in an
international-law framework-of "representative instances where
force has recently been used in international relations, the
circumstances under which it was used, the instructive
international policy and legal constructs that can be applied, and
the relationship of these policies to the minimum world order
system established in . . . the United Nations Charter." He is
eminently fitted to meet the challenge, and the value of his
argument befits the century long tradition of publishing in
international law at the Naval War College.
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