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• Winner of * Winner of the 1988 Paul Reuter Prize awarded by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
• Winner of * Winner of the 1988 Paul Reuter Prize awarded by the International Committee of the Red Cross.

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Author:   Heather A. Wilson (Director of Defense Policy and Arms Control, Director of Defense Policy and Arms Control, the National Security Council, Washington)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Clarendon Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.378kg
ISBN:  

9780198256625

ISBN 10:   0198256620
Pages:   220
Publication Date:   06 September 1990
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part 1 The law: the concept of law - definitions and subjects, sources of international law, the UN and the development of law; the authority to use force in international law - the concept of legitimacy, the authority to use force in world politics, intervention in internal conflicts; humanitarian protection in international law - humanity and warfare, humanitarian protection when belligerency is recognized, humanitarian protection without recognition of belligerency, national liberation movements. Part 2 Self-determination: self determination in international law - Wilson and the League, the UN charter, post-war acceleration and metamorphosis, self-determination in positive law, self-determination as a right in law, the concept of self . Part 3 Right authority: the authority of use force by national liberation movements - United Nations resolutions, the practice of states, the 1977 protocols, the legal arguments; national liberation movements as representative authorities - international recognition. Part 4 Protection of victims: the law of armed conflict in wars of national liberation - United Nations resolutions, recent trends in state practice, the 1977 protocols additional to the Geneva conventions; the prospects for application.

Reviews

An award-winning book that deals with the questions of the appropriate legal role of 'national liberation movements' in the contemporary political world....There is no rival coverage of this topic. Recommended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of international law and relations. --Choice<br>

`Planners and policy makers should find this very useful in their assessments and possibly in decisions for execution' USL Journal 'Wilson has certainly made a very useful contribution to the literature on national liberation movements. This is the first book to concentrate on the right of self-determination and its effect on the law of war, and ought to be widely read, especially by those who still hold the conventional view that the use of force remains the exclusive province of sovereign states.' Onje Gye-Wado, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos, Modern African Studies, Volume 29, part 4, 1991 `A stimulating book.' F. A. Mann, International Affairs `It is an absorbing, well-documented and extensively annotated work ... This book is to be recommended as a reference and historical guide to all those who are interested in the subject.' NATO's Sixteen Nations

<br> An award-winning book that deals with the questions of the appropriate legal role of 'national liberation movements' in the contemporary political world....There is no rival coverage of this topic. Recommended for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of international law and relations. --Choice<br>

`It is an absorbing, well-documented and extensively annotated work ... This book is to be recommended as a reference and historical guide to all those who are interested in the subject.' NATO's Sixteen Nations `A stimulating book.' F. A. Mann, International Affairs 'Wilson has certainly made a very useful contribution to the literature on national liberation movements. This is the first book to concentrate on the right of self-determination and its effect on the law of war, and ought to be widely read, especially by those who still hold the conventional view that the use of force remains the exclusive province of sovereign states.' Onje Gye-Wado, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos, Modern African Studies, Volume 29, part 4, 1991 `Planners and policy makers should find this very useful in their assessments and possibly in decisions for execution' USL Journal

'It is an absorbing, well-documented and extensively annotated work ... This book is to be recommended as a reference and historical guide to all those who are interested in the subject.' NATO's Sixteen Nations 'A stimulating book.' F. A. Mann, International Affairs 'Wilson has certainly made a very useful contribution to the literature on national liberation movements. This is the first book to concentrate on the right of self-determination and its effect on the law of war, and ought to be widely read, especially by those who still hold the conventional view that the use of force remains the exclusive province of sovereign states.' Onje Gye-Wado, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, Lagos, Modern African Studies, Volume 29, part 4, 1991 'Planners and policy makers should find this very useful in their assessments and possibly in decisions for execution' USL Journal

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