Under Attack: Challenges to the Rules Governing the International Use of Force

Under Attack makes a new contribution to the field of international relations in general and the study of international law and armed conflict in particular, in two core ways. First, it links information from varying disciplines to form a comprehensive picture of state practice and the challenges it poses to the legal rules for the use of force. Secondly, it organizes the information so as to identify two core groups of contemporary justifications used by states: humanitarian reasons and se...