Books in the The International Law of Peace and Security series

Features a selection of scholarship on international law as it is relevant to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. This book includes essays that consider questions of the role, authority and track record of the UN Security Council in monitoring, implementing and enforcing compliance with these primary sources of nonproliferation law.

Examines the development of political and legal thinking regarding the use of force in international relations. This title includes an overview of the ancient and medieval concepts of war and the use of force. It also focuses on the contemporary legal framework regulating the use of force as moulded by the UN Charter and state practice.

Features articles and essays that consider the problem of international terrorism from an international legal perspective. In this title, the articles address a range of issues starting with the dilemma of how to reach agreement on what constitutes terrorism and how to encapsulate this in a legitimate definition.

This volume features a selection of the best scholarship on international law as it is relevant to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The essays consider the nonproliferation legal regime as a normative system and offer a more discrete consideration of international law in each weapons of mass destruction technology area: nuclear weapons proliferation; chemical and biological weapons proliferation; and delivery systems proliferation. In addition, the essays consider the closely related questions of the role, authority and track record of the UN Security Council in monitoring, implementing and enforcing compliance with these primary sources of nonproliferation law.