International Law and the Use of Force

Beyond the U.N. Charter Paradigm

Author: Anthony Clark Arend and Robert J. Beck

Law text written specifically for students of international relations, tracing the paradigmatic shift in regulation of the use of armed force since 1945, and the implications for contemporary international law and practice.

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When the United Nations Charter was adopted in 1945, states established a legal paradigm' for regulating the recourse to armed force. In the years since then, however, significant developments have challenged the paradigm's validity, causing a pardigmatic shift'. International Law and the Use of Force traces this shift and explores its implications for contemporary international law and practice.

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Anthony Clark Arend is Assistant Professor of Government, Georgetown University.,
Robert J. Beck is Assistant Professor of International Law and Organization in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia.

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When the United Nations Charter was adopted in 1945, states established a legal 'paradigm' for regulating the recourse to armed force. In the years since then, however, significant developments have challenged the paradigm's validity, causing a 'pardigmatic shift'. International Law and the Use of Force traces this shift and explores its implications for contemporary international law and practice.