Limits of Law, Prerogatives of Power : Interventionism After Kosovo

Review
"The best book written on international law and the use of force in the past forty years..."
-Anthony Arend in Perspectives in Politics

"...eminently readable study goes far beyond identifying the irreconcilability of the Kosovo bombing campaign and the Charter...."--Richard B. Bilder, American Journal of International Law

...its relentless exposé of legal myth is a bracing antidote to... most international legal scholarship.
- Yale Journal of International Law

"This study, provoked by NATO’s intervention in Kosovo, goes well beyond the legal and political issues raised by interventions in internal conflicts. It examines with sharp, realistic awareness of the dilemmas states confront, the attempts to curb the use of force through international law and organizations, the tension between the imperatives of justice and stability, and the need to work gradually toward a new legal regime that would go beyond mere cost-benefit calculations and rationalizations of power.” —Stanley Hoffmann, Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor, Harvard University

“Michael Glennon’s new book provides a very welcome and much-needed corrective to some of the more optimistic claims that have been made in the contemporary debate on humanitarian intervention. The book makes an important contribution to that debate.” —Mats Berdal, The International Institute for Strategic Studies

“This book should be required reading for all of those interested in international law and politics. Mike Glennon honestly and forthrightly confronts the failure of the United Nations Charter and international law generally to control the use of force in international affairs. At a time when many claim we are entering a new world order of international law, governing a globalized society and economy, Glennon asks hard questions for lawyers and political scientists alike, and reaches unexpected yet perceptive answers. In order to candidly grapple with the difficult issues raised not just by the NATO intervention in Kosovo but also by conflict in the post - Cold War era, Glennon’s arguments will have to be taken into account.” —John Yoo, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California

“An impressive work . . . learned, acute, iconoclastic.” —Tom Farer, University of Denver



Review
"The best book written on international law and the use of force in the past forty years..."--Anthony Arend in Perspectives in Politics
"...eminently readable study goes far beyond identifying the irreconcilability of the Kosovo bombing campaign and the Charter...."--Richard B. Bilder in American Journal of International Law
"...its relentless exposé of legal myth is a bracing antidote to... most international legal scholarship."--Yale Journal of International Law

“This study, provoked by NATO’s intervention in Kosovo, goes well beyond the legal and political issues raised by interventions in internal conflicts. It examines with sharp, realistic awareness of the dilemmas states confront, the attempts to curb the use of force through international law and organizations, the tension between the imperatives of justice and stability, and the need to work gradually toward a new legal regime that would go beyond mere cost-benefit calculations and rationalizations of power.” —Stanley Hoffmann, Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor, Harvard University



Book Description
With the end of the Cold War, many believed that a new, more stable international legal order would emerge. But an enormous gap in values-most noticeably concerning armed intervention-has prevented that from happening. One group of nations continues to cling to the United Nations Charter's ban against intervention, while another group-led by NATO and the UN Security Council itself-openly violates that prohibition. In fact, the ban has been breached so often that it can no longer be regarded as authoritative. Whether the resulting legal vacuum can be filled is the overriding international question of the era.



About the Author
Michael J. Glennon is Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis, School of Law. From 1977 to 1980 he was Legal Counsel to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.



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"With the end of the Cold War, many believed that a new, more stable international legal order would emerge. But an enormous gap in values - most noticeably concerning armed intervention - has prevented that from happening. One group of nations continues to cling to the United Nations Charter's ban against intervention, while another group - led by NATO and UN Security Council itself - openly violates that prohibition. In fact, the ban has been breached so often that it can no longer be regarded as authoritative. Whether the resulting legal vacuum can be filled is the overriding international question of the era."--BOOK JACKET.


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