Limits of Law, Prerogatives of Power: Interventionism After Kosovo

by Michael J. Glennon

Book Overview

NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia was justified. NATO violated the United Nations Charter - but nations have used armed force so often that the ban on non-defensive use of force has been cast into doubt. Dangerous cracks in the international legal order have surfaced - widened, ironically, by the UN Security Council itself, which has ridden roughshod over the Charter's ban on intervention. Yet nations remain hopelessly divided on what the rules should...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312239017
• ISBN13: 9780312239015
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.5"