- Author
- Title
- Anticipatory action in self-defence: The law of self-defence - past, presence and future
- Supervisors
- Award date
- 24 November 2010
- Number of pages
- 314
- Document type
- PhD thesis
- Faculty
- Faculty of Law (FdR)
- Institute
- Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL)
- Note
- Commercial edition: Asser Press (The Hague, 2011), ISBN 9789067047951.
Research conducted at: Universiteit van Amsterdam - Persistent Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.337630
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Thesis
Front cover
Title pages
Summary of contents
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1: Introduction
PART I: Pre-Charter customary law on self-defence: introduction
2: Self-defence in ancient and medieval natural law
3: Self-defence as a measure short of war
4: Self-defence as an exception to the prohibition of war
5: The right of self-defence and the drafting of the UN Charter
6: The temporal dimension of self-defence at the time of the Charter
PART II: Post-Charter customary law on self-defence: introduction
7: Self-defence in the immediate aftermath of the adoption of the UN Charter
8: Self-defence in state-to-state conflicts
9: Self-defence and weapons of mass destruction
10: Self-defence against non-state actors
11: The interpretation of self-defence and the United Nations
12: The temporal dimension of post-Charter self-defence
PART III: Anticipatory action in self-defence and international customary law
Summary
Nederlandse samenvatting
Bibliography
Table of documents
Table of cases
Index of topics
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