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MAPS OF THE REGION |
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BACKGROUND TO THE
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PRIMARY SOURCES |
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UNITED NATIONS |
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S.C.
Res. 1160, U.N. Doc. S/RES/1160 (1998) |
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S.C.
Res. 1199, U.N. Doc. S/RES/1199 (1998) |
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S.C.
Res. 1203, U.N. Doc. S/RES/1203 (1998) |
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S.C.
Res. 1207, U.N. Doc. S/RES/1207 (1998) |
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S.C.
Draft Res., U.N. Doc. S/1999/328 |
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S.C.
Res. 1239, U.N. Doc. S/RES/1239 (1999) |
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S.C.
Res. 1244, U.N. Doc. S/RES/1244 (1999) |
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NATO |
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North Atlantic Treaty |
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STATEMENT ON KOSOVO Issued at
the Ministerial Meeting of the North Atlantic Council held in Luxembourg on
28th May 1998 |
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STATEMENT ON KOSOVO Issued at
the Meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Defence Ministers Session, 11 June
1998 |
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Statement by the North
Atlantic Council on Kosovo, 30 January 1999 |
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Selected Resolutions of the UN
General Assembly |
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STATEMENT ON KOSOVO Issued by
the Heads of State and Government participating in the meeting of the North
Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C. on 23rd and 24th April 1999 |
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WAS THE INTERVENTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH
INTERNATIONAL LAW? |
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Supportive commentators |
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Ruth Wedgwood, Unilateral
Action in the UN System, EJIL (2000), Vol. 11 No. 2, 349-359 |
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Aaron Schwabach, The
Legality of the Nato Bombing Operation in the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia, 11 Pace Int'l L. Rev. 405 |
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Peter H. F. Bekker,
International Decision (Legality of Use of Force), 93 A.J.I.L.
928 |
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George K. Walker,
Principles for Collective Humanitarian Intervention to Succor Other Countries'
Imperiled Indigenous Nationals, 18 Am. U. Int'l L. Rev. 35 |
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Critical commentators |
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Jonathan I. Charney,
Anticipatory Humanitarian Intervention in Kosovo. 32 Vand. J. Transnat'l
L. 1231 |
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Antonio Cassese, A Follow
Up: Forcible Humanitarian Countermeasures And Opinion Necessitatis, EJIL
(1999) Vol. 10 No. 4, 791-799 |
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Richard A. Falk, NATO's
Kosovo Intervention: Kosovo, World Order, and the Future of International
Law, 93 A.J.I.L. 847 |
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Jeffrey S. Morton, The
Legality of Nato's Intervention in Yugoslavia in 1999: Implications for the
Progressive Development of International Law, 9 ILSA J Int'l & Comp L
75 |
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Illegal but Legitimate |
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Thomas M. Frank, Recourse
to Force 163 - 173 (2003) |
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Bruno Simma, NATO, The UN
and the Use of Force: Legal Aspects, EJIL (1999) 1-22 |
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Thomas M. Franck, When, If
Ever, May States Deploy Military Force Without Prior Security Council
Authorization? 5 Wash. U. J.L. & Pol'y 51 |
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Required Reading |
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Primary Sources |
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Thomas M. Frank, Recourse
to Force 163 - 173 (2003) |
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Ruth Wedgwood, Unilateral
Action in the UN System, EJIL (2000), Vol. 11 No. 2, 349-359 |
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Jonathan I. Charney,
Anticipatory Humanitarian Intervention in Kosovo 32 Vand. J. Transnat'l
L. 1231 |
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Bruno Simma, NATO, the UN and
the Use of Force: Legal Aspects, EJIL (1999), 1-22 |
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Questions |
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1) Politically, what, if
anything, distinguishes this case from humanitarian intervention in Rwanda?
Legally, what, if anything, distinguishes this case from humanitarian
intervention in Rwanda?
2) In retrospect, even if the
use of force was illegal in 1999, did it become legalized a fortiori? Consider
the statement Secretary-General Annan regarding the inability of the Security
Council to act and its concomitant requirement to act.
3) Please consider the (now
cliché) distinction between international legality and international
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