The September 11 terrorist attacks and the invasion of Iraq in contemporary international law : opinions on the emerging new world order system / by Edward McWhinney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McWhinney, Edward.

Series:

Nijhoff law specials ; 61.

Nijhoff law specials ; v. 61

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iraq War, 2003-2011--Law and legislation.

Iraq War, 2003-2011.

Terrorism--Prevention--Law and legislation.

Terrorism.

Physical Description:

106 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

September eleven terrorist attacks and the invasion of Iraq in contemporary international law

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, [2004]

Contents:

Chapter 1. "Linkage" in International Law. From September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks to March 20, 2003 US/British Invasion of Iraq 13

Chapter 2. International Legal Controls on International Terrorism 19

I. International Law-based Responses to the September 11 International Terrorist Attacks 23

II. Use of Armed Force under the United Nations Charter 24

III. Individual and Collective Self-Defence 25

IV. New Anti-Terrorist International Law 28

V. International Terrorism and the Law of War (Jus in Bello) 29

Chapter 3. "Rogue States" and the Claimed Legal Doctrine of Preemptive Strikes 33

I. President Bush and the New U.S. National Security Strategy: the Continuing Relevance of the Legal Adviser and International Law 37

II. The SALT I, ABM Treaty, 1972 Re-visited 38

III. The Legal Basis of the New U.S. National Security Strategy 39

a. The U.N. Charter and Use-of-Force and Armed Intervention 39

b. Korean Crisis, 1950 40

c. Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962 40

d. Retrospective Examination of NATO Armed Intervention in Yugoslavia, 1999 41

d.i. Parliamentary Scrutiny 45

d.ii. "Uniting for Peace" Resolution in U.N. General Assembly 46

d.iii. U.N. Charter, Article 51: Self-Defense 47

IV. Use of Armed Force: Continued Relevance of U.N. Security Council and General Assembly 48

a. International Law as an Autonomous and Self-Sufficient System 49

b. An Alternative Doctrinal Approach: Non Liquet 50

c. Afghanistan, 2001-2: U.S. and Allied Return to the Security Council 51

d. Contemporary International Law as to Peace and Security and Use of Armed Force 51

d.i. Armed Force, Armed Intervention 51

d.ii. Self-Defence under the U.N. Charter: Anticipatory Self-Defense 52

d.iii. Legal Controls for International Terrorism 53

V. Unilateralism vs. Multilateralism, and the Special Case of Iraq: the Law and Power Antinomy 54

Chapter 4. Unilateralism vs. Multilateralism: the United Nations Charter Prohibition on the Use-of-Force 57

I. The US/British Invasion of Iraq and the United Nations Charter. The Paradox of Unintended Consequences 60

II. From the Gulf War (1990-1) and Afghanistan (2001-2) to the Iraq Invasion: US/British Failure to Produce a Legal Common Front against Iraq 61

III. The Kosovo, 1999 Precedent: Re-visiting NATO Armed Intervention against Yugoslavia 64

IV. The UN Security Council and the Iraq Invasion: the "Pretext" Issue 68

V. After the Iraq Invasion: Charter Legal Principle of the Non-Use-of-Force 72

VI. Continued Multilateral Cooperation in Security Council-Authorized Antiterrorist Action 74

VII. Return to Multilateralism? Back to the U.N. and U.N. Charter-based International Law 75

Chapter 5. Unfolding of the Legal Dialectic: Legal Lessons from September 11 and the Iraq Invasion 79

I. Law and Fact. The Crucial Role of Fact-Finding as Premise for Legal Action 79

II. National Decision-Making on War and Peace: Changing Constitutional Balances 81

III. Legal Adviser, Legal Academies, Private Pressure Groups and NGOs 83

IV. Participatory Democracy: People's Power as Factor in National Decision-Making 86

V. The Leadership Variable: Changing of the Generations 88

VI. International Decision-Making Arenas: New Political and Constitutional Balances within the United Nations System 89

VII. Who Decides on War and Peace, and on When It Is a Just War? 90

VIII. The United States as Lone Superpower: New Challenges and New Opportunities in the Post-Iraq Invasion Period 91

Appendix Institut de Droit International: Bruges Declaration on the Use-of-Force and on Belligerent Occupation (September 2, 2003) 95.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Publications of the author: (pages [101]-103).

ISBN:

900414143X

OCLC:

56533608