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Under Attack

Challenges to the Rules Governing the International Use of Force

By: Belinda Helmke

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Under Attack

Challenges to the Rules Governing the International Use of Force

By: Belinda Helmke

Under Attack makes a new contribution to the field of international relations in general and the study of international law and armed conflict in particular, in two core ways. First, it links information from varying disciplines, most notably international relations and international law, to form a comprehensive picture of state practice and the challenges it poses to the legal rules for the use of force. Secondly, it organises the information in such a way to identify two core groups of contemporary justifications used by states: humanitarian reasons and self-defence, both with their sub-categories. At the core of this book is the question of how state practice since 1990 has challenged the long-established legal regime on the international use of force. Are we merely witnessing a temporary and insignificant challenge to international law or are the rules genuinely under attack?

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1317005325

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9781317005322

Under Attack

Challenges to the Rules Governing the International Use of Force

By: Belinda Helmke

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Under Attack

Challenges to the Rules Governing the International Use of Force

By: Belinda Helmke

Under Attack makes a new contribution to the field of international relations in general and the study of international law and armed conflict in particular, in two core ways. First, it links information from varying disciplines to form a comprehensive picture of state practice and the challenges it poses to the legal rules for the use of force. Secondly, it organizes the information so as to identify two core groups of contemporary justifications used by states: humanitarian reasons and self-defence.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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0754679896

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9780754679899

Media and Democracy in Australia

By: Belinda Helmke

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Media and Democracy in Australia

By: Belinda Helmke

Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Other States, grade: 1, Macquarie University, language: English, abstract: When speaking about democracy one has to be careful to distinguish between its two key areas: direct democracy and representative democracy. Direct democracy is largely associated with self-government of the people in ancient Greece. This Athenian democracy is something which, as population of states grew, was increasingly difficult to sustain. In, for example, Australia with a population of 19 million people direct self-rule which implies "time-consuming and unwieldy procedures", with the likely effect of paralysing and not enhancing governmental decision-making processes, is largely unthinkable. Hence, today in the 21st century when one speaks of democracies what is largely meant is a representative democracy. Although remnants of direct democracy remain in aspects such as referendums, generally voters hand over their power in regular elections to representatives to rule on their behalf. The emergence of the internet has inspired many critics to believe that it can be the answer to overcoming what they see as the temporary solution of representative democracies. They believe that the new media, the internet, will lead to a future in which "major policy decisions can be instigated, formulated, and decided by direct democracy.

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3640952642

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