Open AccessTHREATS OF FORCE: INTERNATIONAL LAW AND STRATEGY
Author(s) -
Peter Slinn
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
denning law journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2047-2765
pISSN - 0269-1922
DOI - 10.5750/dlj.v25i1.780
Subject(s) - use of force , law , duty , political science , charter , international law , united nations charter , independence (probability theory) , context (archaeology) , meaning (existential) , courage , state (computer science) , politics , law and economics , sociology , philosophy , security council , history , epistemology , statistics , mathematics , archaeology , algorithm , computer science
Dr Francis Grimal, Routledge 2012, ISBN-13: 978-0415609852, Price £70.40 hbDr Grimal’s monograph on the law of armed conflict relating to threats of force, is a significant contribution to the literature. It ventures along one of the most perilous corridors of uncertainty in modern international law, and attempts with commendable courage to set the legal issues in the context of modern international relations. As Professor Breau writes in her Foreword, the existing literature concentrates overwhelmingly on the actual use of force, and there is little academic analysis of the meaning and significance of the threat of force in terms of the reference in article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter, to the duty of all members to ‘refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state’.