OUVRAGE : T. Ruys, O. Corten, A. Hofer (eds.) , The Use of Force in International Law: A Case-Based Approach

Tom RUYS, Olivier CORTEN, Alexandra HOFER

The international law on the use of force is one of the oldest branches of international law. It is an area twinned with the emergence of international law as a concept in itself, and which sees law and politics collide.

The number of armed conflicts is equal only to the number of methodological approaches used to describe them.

Many violent encounters are well known. The Kosovo Crisis in 1999 and the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 spring easily to the minds of most scholars and academics, and gain extensive coverage in this text. Other conflicts, including the Belgian operation in Stanleyville, and the Ethiopian Intervention in Somalia, are often overlooked to our peril. Ruys and Corten's expert-written text compares over sixty different instances of the use of cross border force since the adoption of the UN Charter in 1945, from all out warfare to hostile encounters between individual units, targeted killings, and hostage rescue operations, to ask a complex question. How much authority does the power of precedent really have in the law of the use of force?

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Tom Ruys, Olivier Corten, Alexandra Hofer, Introduction
2. Michael Wood, The Caroline Incident - 1837

I. The Cold War Era (1945-1989)

3. Nigel White, The Korean War - 1950-1953
4. Alexandra Hofer, The Suez Canal Crisis - 1956
5. Eliav Lieblich, The Soviet Intervention in Hungary - 1956
6. Ki-Gab Park, The U-2 incident - 1960
7. Robert Kolb, The Belgian Intervention in The Congo - 1960 and 1964
8. Tom Ruys, The Indian Intervention in Goa - 1961
9. Alexander Orakhelashvili, The Cuban Missile Crisis - 1962
10. Douglas Guilfoyle, The Gulf of Tonkin Incident - 1964
11. Christian Walter, The US Intervention in the Dominican Republic - 1965
12. John Quigley, The Six Day War - 1967
13. Gerhard Hafner, The Intervention in Czechoslovakia - 1968
14. Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg, The USS Pueblo Incident - 1968
15. Dino Kristiotis, The Indian Intervention into (East) Pakistan - 1971
16. François Dubuisson, Vaios Koutroulis, The Yom Kippur War - 1973
17. Oliver Dörr, Turkey's intervention in Cyprus - 1974
18. Natalino Ronzitti, The Mayaguez Incident - 1975
19. Claus Kreß, Benjamin K. Nußberger, The Entebbe Raid - 1976
20. Constantine Antonopoulos, The Larnaca Incident - 1978
21. Gregory H. Fox, The Vietnamese Intervention in Cambodia - 1978
22. Kenneth Chan, The Ugandan-Tanzanian War - 1978-1979
23. Myra Williamson, Operation Litani - 1978
24. Myra Williamson, The Lebanon War - 1982
25. Georg Nolte, Janina Barkholdt, The Soviet Intervention in Afghanistan - 1979-1980
26. Mathias Forteau, Alison See Ying Xiu, The US Hostage Rescue Operation in Iran - 1980
27. Andrea de Guttry, The Iran-Iraq War - 1980-1988
28. Tom Ruys, Israel's Air Strike Against Iraq's Osiraq Nuclear Reactor - 1981
29. Jörg Kammerhofer, The US Intervention in Nicaragua - 1981-1988
30. Etienne Henry, The Falklands/Malvinas War - 1982
31. Theresa Reinold, South African Incursions into Lesotho - 1982
32. Nabil Hajjami, The US Intervention in Grenada - 1983
33. Erin Pobjie, Fanny Declercq, Raphaël Van Steenberghe, The Israeli Raid Against the PLO Headquarters in Tunis - 1985
34. Erin Pobjie, Fanny Declercq, Raphaël Van Steenberghe, The Killing of Khalil al-Wazir by Israeli Commandos in Tunis - 1988
35. Maurice Kamto, The US Strikes Against Libya - 1986
36. Nicholas Tsagourias, The US Intervention in Panama - 1989

II. The Post-Cold War Era (1990-2000)

37. Ugo Villani, The ECOWAS Intervention in Liberia - 1990-1997
38. Erika de Wet, The Gulf War - 1990-1991
39. Tarcisio Gazzini, Intervention in Iraq's Kurdish region and the Creation of the No-Fly Zones in Northern and Southern Iraq - 1991-2003
40. Terry D. Gill, Kinga Tibori-Szabó, The Intervention in Somalia
41. Pierre Klein, The Intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina - 1992-1995
42. Paulina Starski, The US Air Strike Against the Iraqi Intelligence Headquarters - 1993
43. Susan Breau, The ECOWAS Intervention in Sierra Leone - 1997-1999
44. Enzo Cannizzaro, Aurora Rasi, The US Strikes in Sudan and Afghanistan - 1998
45. Sean D. Murphy, The Eritrean-Ethiopian War - 1998-2000
46. James A. Green, The Great African War and the Intervention by Uganda and Rwanda in the Democratic Republic of Congo - 1998-2003
47. Daniel Franchini, Antonios Tzanakopoulos, The Kosovo crisis - 1999

III. The Post 9/11-Era (2001-)

48. Michael Byers, The Intervention in Afghanistan - 2001-
49. Marc Weller, The Iraq War - 2003
50. Lindsay Moir, Israeli Air Strikes in Syria - 2003 and 2007
51. Christian J. Tams, Wenke Brückner, The Israeli Intervention in Lebanon - 2006
52. Kimberley N. Trapp, The Turkish Intervention Against the PKK in Northern Iraq - 2007-2008
53. Mónica Pinto, Marcos Kotlik, 'Operation Phoenix' - the Colombian Raid Against the FARC in Ecuador - 2008
54. Christine Gray, The Conflict in Georgia - 2008
55. Christian Henderson, Israeli Military Operations Against Gaza: Operation Cast Lead (2008-2009), Operation Pillar of Defense (2012) and Operation Protective Edge (2014)
56. Ashley Deeks, The NATO Intervention in Libya - 2011
57. David Kretzmer, US Extra-Territorial Actions against Individuals: Bin Laden, Al Awlaki, and Abu Khattalah
58. Dire Tladi, The Intervention in Côte d'Ivoire - 2011
59. Agatha Verdebout, The Intervention of the Gulf Cooperation Council in Bahrain - 2011
60. Jean-Christophe Martin, The Ethiopian Military Intervention in Somalia - 2011
61. Karine Bannelier,Théodore Christakis, The Intervention of France and African Countries in Mali - 2013
62. Anne Lagerwall, Threats of and Actual Military Strikes against Syria - 2013 and 2017
63. Mary Ellen O'Connell, The Crisis in Ukraine - 2014
64. Olivier Corten, The Military Operations against the 'Islamic State' (ISIL or Daesh) - 2014
65. Luca Ferro and Tom Ruys, The Saudi-Led Military Intervention in Yemen's Civil War - 2015
66. Mohamed S. Helal, The ECOWAS Intervention in the Gambia - 2016 

Tom RUYS, Olivier CORTEN, Alexandra HOFER (eds.), The Use of Force in International Law: A Case-Based Approach, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018 (960 pp.)