OUVRAGE : J.A. Green, Collective Self-Defence in International Law

James A. GREEN

Collective self-defence can be defined as the use of military force by one or more states to aid another state that is an innocent victim of armed attack. However, it is a legal justification that is open to abuse and its exercise risks escalating conflict. Recent years have seen an unprecedented increase in the number of collective self-defence claims. It has been the main basis for US-led action in Syria (2014-) and was advanced by Russia in relation to its full-scale invasion of Ukraine (2022-). Yet there still has been little analysis of collective self-defence in international law. This book crucially progresses the debate on various fundamental and under-explored questions about the conceptual nature of collective self-defence and the requirements for its operation. Green provides the most detailed and extensive account of collective self-defence to date, at a time when it is being invoked more than ever before.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgements
Table of Treaties
Table of Cases and Arbitral Awards
Introduction

1. Delineating Collective Self-Defence
2. The History and Development of Collective Self-Defence
3. The Requirements Shared by Individual and Collective Self-Defence
4. The Purported Declaration and Request Requirements for Collective Self-Defence
5. The Issuer of a Collective Self-Defence Request
6. The Manner and Form of a Collective Self-Defence Request
7. Collective Self-Defence Treaty Arrangements
8. The Relationship between Collective Self-Defence and Military Assistance on Request

Conclusion
Select Bibliography
Bibliography
Index 

James A. GREEN, Collective Self-Defence in International Law, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024 (388 pp.)