Self-defence in international and criminal law : the doctrine of imminence / Onder Bakircioglu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bakircioglu, Onder, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self-defense (International law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing from scholarship across law, history, politics and philosophy, Self-Defence in International and Criminal Law provides a broad and interdisciplinary approach to the doctrine of self-defence in both domestic criminal and international law. It focuses on the requirement of imminence, which deals with the question of when individuals or States may legitimately resort to defensive force against a serious danger or harm. In both national and international law the imminence requirement, if strictly applied, renders any defensive measure taken in anticipation of a would-be attack

Contents:

The doctrine of self-defence and its limits in criminal law

The laws of war and the roots of international self-defence

From sovereignty to unilateralism : a critique of the preventive war doctrine

The role and rationale of the imminence requirement in national and international law

Conclusions.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-70273-3

1-136-70274-1

1-283-44312-0

9786613443120

0-203-81381-2

9780203813812

OCLC:

732079108