Law Against War

1. A Choice of Method
I. The Terms of the Methodological Debate on the Non-Use of Force: The Extensive Versus the Restrictive Approach
A. The Extensive and Restrictive Approaches to the Interpretation of the Rule Prohibiting the Use of Force
B. Towards a Disappearance of Restrictive Approaches?
II. Methodological Approach of this Book
A. Reliance on a Novel Right
B. The Acceptance of the Modification of the Legal Rule by the International Community of States as a Whole
III. Conclusion

2. What Do âUse of Forceâ and âThreat of Forceâ Mean?
I. What Does âForceâ Mean?
A. The Boundary between Military Force and Police Measures
B. Determining the Threshold: âForceâ within the Meaning of Charter Article 2(4)
C. A Few Problematic Situations: Humanitarian Operations or Protection of Nationals, Targeted Military Actions or âTargeted Killingsâ
D. The Case of âCyber Attacksâ
II. What Does âThreat of Forceâ Mean?
A. The Restrictive Meaning of âThreatâ under Charter Article 2(4)
B. The Scope of the Prohibition of Threat: The Absence of any Specific Regime for the Contemplated Use of Force
III. Conclusion

3. Do the Prohibition of the Use of Force and Self-Defence Apply to Non-State Actors?
I. Exclusion of Non-State Political Entities from the Ruleâs Scope of Application: Rebel Groups, National Liberation Movements and Territories or Entities Whose Legal Status is Contested
A. Inapplicability of the Rule Prohibiting the Use of Force to Civil Wars
B. Inapplicability of the Rule to National Liberation Struggles
C. The Case of Territories with Entities of Controversial Legal Status
II. Exclusion of Private Groups from the Ruleâs Scope of Application
A. Maintaining âInternational Relationsâ as Relations among States: The Letter and Spirit of the Rule
B. Maintaining âInternational Relationsâ as Relations between States: The Interpretation of Texts in Practice
C. Maintaining âInternational Relationsâ as Relations between States: The Works of the International Law Commission and of the International Court of Justice
III. Conclusion

4. Can Circumstances Precluding Wrongfulness be Invoked to Justify a Use of Force?
I. Inadmissibility in Principle
A. The Peremptory Character of the Rule in Charter Article 2(4)
B. Inadmissibility of Circumstances Precluding Wrongfulness Not Provided for by the UN Charter
II. Inadmissibility Confirmed in Practice
A. Precedents Attesting to Statesâ General Reluctance to Invoke Circumstances Precluding Wrongfulness
B. Precedents Attesting Unequivocal Condemnation of Armed Reprisals
C. The Rare Precedents Where Circumstances Precluding Wrongfulness Have Been Invoked to Justify the Use of Force: Necessity and âBona Fide Errorâ?
III. Conclusion

5. Intervention by Invitation
I. The General Legal Regime of Military Intervention by Invitation
A. Consent to Armed Intervention within the Limits of Peremptory Law (Jus Cogens): The Necessity of Ad Hoc Consent
B. The Requirement for Consent of the Stateâs Highest Authorities
II. Observance of the Right of Peoples to Self-Determination and the Security Councilâs Growing Role
A. The Right of Peoples to Self-Determination: A Relevant Principle for Evaluating the Lawfulness of Intervention by Invitation?
B. The Problem of Concurrent Governments
C. The Problem of the Object and Effects of the Intervention by Invitation
III. Conclusion

6. Intervention Authorised by the UN Security Council
I. The General Legal Regime of Authorised Military Intervention
A. The Lawfulness of Military Intervention Authorised by the Security Council
B. The Unlawfulness of Military Intervention âAuthorisedâ by Another UN Body or by Another Subject of International Law
II. The Problem of Presumed Authorisation
A. The Absence of Recognition of Presumed Authorisation in Practice
B. Refusals and Obstacles of Principle to Recognition of a Presumed Authorisation
III. Conclusion

7. Self-Defence
I. âArmed Attackâ According to Charter Article 51
A. âPreventive Self-Defenceâ Theories
B. The Question of âIndirect Aggressionâ
II. Necessity and Proportionality
A. The Limit of Necessary Measures Adopted by the Security Council
B. The General Meaning of Conditions of Necessity and Proportionality
III. Conclusion

8. A Right of Humanitarian Intervention?
I. Non-Recognition in Legal Texts
A. The Dismissal of the Right of Humanitarian Intervention in Classical Legal Texts
B. The Persistent Refusal to Accept a âRight of Humanitarian Interventionâ
II. The Non-Existence of Decisive Precedents
A. The Absence of Consecration of a Right of Humanitarian Intervention before 1990
B. The Absence of Consecration of a Right of Humanitarian Intervention since 1990
III. Conclusion