1. Collective Self-Action
- Author:
- Ananth Padmanabhan and Michael Shih
- Publication Date:
- 12-2012
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Center for Global Legal Challenges, Yale Law School
- Abstract:
- Collective self-defense is an express exception to the U.N. Charter’s prohibition on the use of force by states. It permits a member state to intervene in the defense of another member state when that state has been subject to an unlawful armed attack. Here we consider (1) the obligations that international law places on an intervening state and (2) the best practices for an intervening state that may be derived from past state practice.
- Topic:
- United Nations, Military Strategy, Legal Theory, Military Intervention, and Collective Defense
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus