1. NİŞANTAŞI ÜNİVERSİTESİ
INTERNATIONAL LAW
COURSE INFORMATION AND SYLLABUS
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2. Chapter 19: Use of Force
A PERSPECTIVE ON THE USE OF FORCE IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD
A Note on Lawfare and Warfare
THE CLASSIC DEFINITION OF WAR
PRE-CHARTER ATTEMPTS TO REGULATE THE USE OF FORCE
Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907
The Interwar Period
Kellogg-Briand Pact (Pact of Paris, 1928)

3. TERRORISM AND SELF DEFENCE
THE UNITED NATIONS
Collective Security and the Security Council
Defining the Scope of Self Defence
Aggression: Another Controversy Over Definitions
From “War” to “Armed Conflict”
TERRORISM AND SELF DEFENCE
Terrorism and Preemptive Self Defence
Kenya and Tanzania
Afghanistan
Invasion of Afghanistan
UN Forces
United Nations Command: South Korea
The Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait (1991)

4. THE UNITED STATES, THE UNITED NATIONS, AND IRAQ (2003)
UN PEACEKEEPING
Peacekeeping and Peace Enforcement
Suez 1956: UNEF I
The Congo
Post Congo to the Present
THE UNITED STATES, THE UNITED NATIONS, AND IRAQ (2003)
POSTCOLONIAL, IMPERIAL CONTINUATION, AND/OR BORDER WARS
THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT AND HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION
Kosovo

5. Sources
Gerhard von Glahn &James Larry Taulbee, Law Among Nations: An Introduction to Public International Law, 11th Edition/Kindle Version (Routledge: New York, 2017).
Chapter 19: Use of Force

6. Suggested Readings
Arend, A., “International Law and the Preemptive Use of Military Force,” 26 Washington Quarterly 89 (2003).
Bzsostek, R., Why Not Preempt? Security, Law Norms, and Anticipatory Military Activity (Routledge, 2016).
Chesterman, S., Just War or Just Peace? Humanitarian Intervention and International Law (Oxford, 2001). Dinstein, Y., War, Aggression and Self-Defense, 5th ed. (Cambridge, 2011).
Gardam, J., Necessity, Proportionality and the Use of Force by States (Cambridge, 2011). Jennings, R. Y., “The Caroline and McLeod Cases,” 32 AJIL 82 (1938).
Luck, A., et al., “Stayin’ Alive: The Rumors of the UN’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated,” 82 Foreign Affairs (2003). May, L., Aggression and Crimes Against Peace (2008).
McDougal, M., and Feliciano, F., Law and Minimum World Public Order: Legal Regulation and International Coercion (Yale, 1961).
Orford, A., International Authority and the Responsibility to Protect (Cambridge, 2011).
Reisman, W. M., “Editorial Comment: Assessing Claims to Revise the Laws of War,” 97 AJIL 82 (2003).
Taulbee, J. L., “Governing the Use of Force: Does the Charter Matter Anymore,” 4 Civil Wars 2 (2001), 1– 58.
Taulbee J. L., and Anderson, J., “Reprisal Redux” 16 Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law 309 (1984). Tucker, R. W., (Comment), “Reprisals and Self-Defense: The Customary Law,” 66 AJIL 586 (1972).