REGNRSG 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Jus Ad Bellum, Nicaragua V. United States, Computer Network
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Chapter 13: the international regulation on the use of force. Rules = part of the international law of coexistence. Jus ad bellum = rules that regulate when and for what purpose a state may use force against another state relates to the initial political decision of a state to use force in another state. Jus in bello = rules that regulate how military hostilities must be conducted relates to the manner in which that political decision is implemented. The un charter and the prohibition of the use of force. Only at the end of the 19th cent that attempts were made to limit the freedom of states to use force in another state. First effort to limit the substantial right of states to resort to war was the adoption of the. General treaty for renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy = kellogg-briand pact. Ww2 = turning point: holding international peace and security.