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A Farewell to Wars: The Growing Restraints on the Interstate Use of Force

A Farewell to Wars: The Growing Restraints on the Interstate Use of Force

Name: A Farewell to Wars: The Growing Restraints on the Interstate Use of Force
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781009392501
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Author: Hans Blix
ISBN: 9781009392501

By Hans Blix

Cambridge University Press November 2023

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ISBN-13: 9781009392501
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: November 2023
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Since World War II, there has been a trend towards fewer wars, the Russian invasion of the Ukraine standing as a major 'aberration'. With decades of experience as an international lawyer, diplomat and head of UN Iraq inspections, Hans Blix examines conflicts and other developments after World War II. He finds that new restraints on uses of force have emerged from fears about nuclear war, economic interdependence and UN Charter rules. With less interest in the conquest of land, states increasingly use economic or cyber means to battle their adversaries. Such a turn is not free from perils but should perhaps be welcomed as an alternative to previous methods of war. By analysing these new restraints, Blix rejects the fatalistic assumption that there will always be war. He submits that today leading powers are saying farewell to previous patterns of war, instead choosing to continue their competition for power and influence on the battlefields of economy and information.

1. Introduction

2. Interstate uses of force, tensions, and restraints by regions since World War II

3. Interstate uses of force, tensions, and restraints during major phases of international relations since World War II

4. Incentives to the interstate uses of force and restraints

5. Historical evolution of norms and other means to restrain the use of force

6. Overview of disincentives to and restraints on the interstate use of force

7. Military strength to deter others from using force

8. Nuclear and other non-conventional weapons and means as deterrents and threats

9. Disarmament as restraint on the use of force

10. Preventing the interstate use of force by preventing or solving conflicts: mediation, arbitration, fact-finding, diplomacy

11. Restraints on the interstate use of force through legal norms

12. UN Charter articles relating to the use of force

13. The Security Council may use or authorize states or regional organizations to use force

14. The right to individual and collective self-defence as an exception to Article 2:4

15. Interventions triggered by factors unforeseen at the adoption of the Charter's ban on the interstate use of force

16. Interventions seeking regime change, protection of people or punishment

17. Findings regarding the role of norms to restrain the interstate use of force

18. States are saying farewell to wars

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