Peace and War

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Book Chapter

Publication Date

2012

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in The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law 272 (Bardo Fassbender & Anne Peters eds., 2012).
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Abstract

From the Introduction
Chapter 11
Law is valued for providing an alternative to the use of force in the ordering of human affairs.1 In this sense, all of international law is law of peace,2 peace being the antithesis of force, violence, and armed conflict. Still, at the heart of the international legal system is a specific set of rules, principles, and procedures prohibiting resort to force and mandating the use of peaceful means to settle disputes and to resolve societal problems. It is this more specific regime and its history that are the focus of this chapter. Notes

  1. E Zoller Peacetime Unilateral Remedies: An Analysis of Countermeasures (Transnational New York 1984) at 4.
  2. I Brownlie ‘The Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes in Practice’ (1995) 7 Pace International Law Review 257–79 at 257.

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