Governing the Use-of-Force in International Relations: The Post-9/11 US Challenge to International Law

By: Aiden Warren and Ingvild Bode

Published in: Basingstoke – Palgrave Macmillan

Date: 2014

Summary

This book examines US recourse to military force in the post-9/11 era. In particular, it evaluates the extent to which the Bush and Obama administrations viewed legitimizing the greater use-of-force as a necessary solution to thwart the security threat presented by global terrorist networks and WMD proliferation.