Advanced introduction to international conflict and security law

The idea behind this book is to bring together the legal regimes addressing the basic issue of regulating violence between states and increasingly within states, within a coherent and accessible introductory text. The intention, though, it no simply to provide readers with a set of 'rules' governing uses of force, armed conflict and the various actors involved in collective security, since international law does not work in this way in such a highly politicized area of international relations. Instead, the normative framework that have been developed to shape political action are identified and analyzed in terms of legitimacy and efficacy as well as legality.