
This book offers a timely and comprehensive inquiry into the growing number of situations where the temptation or necessity to use military force confronts the tenets of international law. It explores the tension between collective security and self-defense during the Iraq-Kuwait...


Such events as the Gulf War have demonstrated the existing challenges to the application of international law against the use of force. This book examines the growing number of situations where the temptation or necessity of using military force contravenes international law...