POLI 343 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Collective Security, Ant-Zen, Preventive War
28 Nov 2015
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International law and armed conflict (continued: united nations and collective security united nations doesn"t prohibit all use of force. States still have the legal capacity for force. Individual unitarily national self-defence has two instances to satisfy this claim: an attack against you from another state and an. So it"s an attack that one can foresee in which there is sound evidence that as a state you are threatened: collective security: (i) individual unitarily national self-defence: Needs two instances to satisfy this claim: an attack against you from another state, imminent attack that requires a pre-emptive strike. This means an attack that one can foresee in which there is sound evidence that as a state you are threatened. Proof can come in forms such as satellites. Pre-emptive act is different from a preventive strike. Preventive strike is when a state claims that another state is preparing to attack in the long run.
