International Law and the Use of Force by National Liberation Movements

• 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.

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