Name: International Law and the Use of Force by National Liberation Movements By Heather A. Wilson (Director of Defense Policy and Arms Control, Director of Defense Policy and Arms Control, the National Security Council, Washington)
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International Law and the Use of Force by National Liberation Movements by Heather A. Wilson (Director of Defense Policy and Arms Control, Director of Defense Policy and Arms Control, the National Security Council, Washington)

This book examines two branches of the international law of armed conflict as they apply to national liberation movements. First, it explores the idea that national liberation movements may legitimately resort to the use of force to secure the right of their peoples to self-determination. Second, it examines the application of the humanitarian law of armed conflict in wars of national liberation.

International Law and the Use of Force by National Liberation Movements Reviews

`It is an absorbing, well-documented and extensively annotated work ... This book is to be recommended as a reference and historical guide to all those who are interested in the subject.' NATO's Sixteen Nations
`A stimulating book.' F. A. Mann, International Affairs
'Wilson has certainly made a very useful contribution to the literature on national liberation movements. This is the first book to concentrate on the right of self-determination and its effect on the law of war, and ought to be widely read, especially by those who still hold the conventional view that the use of force remains the exclusive province of sovereign states.' Onje Gye-Wado, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos, Modern African Studies, Volume 29, part 4, 1991
`Planners and policy makers should find this very useful in their assessments and possibly in decisions for execution' USL Journal

Part 1 The law: the concept of law - definitions and subjects, sources of international law, the UN and the development of law; the authority to use force in international law - the concept of legitimacy, the authority to use force in world politics, intervention in internal conflicts; humanitarian protection in international law - humanity and warfare, humanitarian protection when belligerency is recognized, humanitarian protection without recognition of belligerency, national liberation movements. Part 2 Self-determination: self determination in international law - Wilson and the League, the UN charter, post-war acceleration and metamorphosis, self-determination in positive law, self-determination as a right in law, the concept of self. Part 3 Right authority: the authority of use force by national liberation movements - United Nations resolutions, the practice of states, the 1977 protocols, the legal arguments; national liberation movements as representative authorities - international recognition. Part 4 Protection of victims: the law of armed conflict in wars of national liberation - United Nations resolutions, recent trends in state practice, the 1977 protocols additional to the Geneva conventions; the prospects for application.

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International Law and the Use of Force by National Liberation Movements by Heather A. Wilson (Director of Defense Policy and Arms Control, Director of Defense Policy and Arms Control, the National Security Council, Washington)

Author

Heather A. Wilson (Director of Defense Policy and Arms Control, Director of Defense Policy and Arms Control, the National Security Council, Washington)

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Clarendon Paperbacks

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Oxford University Press

Year published

19900906

Number of pages

220

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Winner of * Winner of the 1988 Paul Reuter Prize awarded by the International Committee of the Red Cross.

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