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Chapter 14: Use of force
Chapter 14: Use of force
A video tutorial from author Gleider Hernández introducing the topics in chapter 14 of International Law
Key points for reflection:
- Historical use of force/war as an instrument of foreign policy, conquest of territory, even destruction of other party
- 1919 League Covenant, 1929 Kellogg-Briand Pact gradually prohibited armed force; culminated in UN Charter prohibition
- Charter exceptions:
- Consent of the State in which operations are taken
- Self-defence
- Collective security pursuant to Security Council decision
- Contested doctrines:
- ‘Humanitarian intervention’: armed intervention to protect civilian lives despite no Security Council approval
- ‘Responsibility to Protect’: attempt to impose preventive obligations but retreat from humanitarian unilateralism
- Peacekeeping by the UN or regional organisations