{"title":"Legal consequences of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s unprecedented declaration attributing the instigation of the Eritrea-Ethiopia border war to Ethiopia’s previous ruling party","authors":"Isaias T. Berhe, S. Andemariam","doi":"10.1080/20531702.2023.2194721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20531702.2023.2194721","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In 2005, the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission decided in the Jus ad Bellum award that Eritrea unlawfully used force at the start of the border war between Eritrea and Ethiopia. In September 2021, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed wrote a letter to United States’ President Joe Biden stating that the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, which was at the head of Ethiopia’s previous ruling coalition, instigated the war. This article examines the nature and legal effects of that letter under international law, especially its impact on the award and the yet-to-be-composed fact-finding body, and recommends steps in the context of strengthening the warming relations between the two states.","PeriodicalId":37206,"journal":{"name":"Journal on the Use of Force and International Law","volume":"10 1","pages":"74 - 103"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48810524","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unbound in war? International law in Canada and Britain’s participation in the Korean war and Afghanistan","authors":"Alexander Orakhelashvili","doi":"10.1080/20531702.2023.2199503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20531702.2023.2199503","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37206,"journal":{"name":"Journal on the Use of Force and International Law","volume":"10 1","pages":"153 - 158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45247722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The provision of weapons and logistical support to Ukraine and the jus ad bellum","authors":"James A. Green","doi":"10.1080/20531702.2023.2200321","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20531702.2023.2200321","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This editorial considers the support currently being supplied to Ukraine following Russia’s ongoing full-scale invasion, which began in February 2022. Western states have provided significant aid to Ukraine in the form, inter alia, of modern weapons and training. This editorial asks whether that support is in itself a use of force in prima facie violation of Article 2(4) of the UN Charter and customary international law. A related question that is also considered is whether NATO member states (and others) are currently exercising the right of collective self-defence in relation to their support for Ukraine.","PeriodicalId":37206,"journal":{"name":"Journal on the Use of Force and International Law","volume":"10 1","pages":"3 - 16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42889784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of the Security Council and its authorisation to use force to create normative markers in democratic governance discourses","authors":"Işıl Aral","doi":"10.1080/20531702.2022.2144433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20531702.2022.2144433","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article investigates how international law scholars construct their argument when they argue for the emergence of a new customary norm. It focuses on scholarly writings discussing whether there is an emerging customary norm which requires states to legitimise their governance through democratic rule. By conceptualising international law as a set of narratives, the article concentrates on democratic governance discourses to analyse how scholars resort to the involvement of the Security Council as a narrative technique that provides persuasiveness to their argument. The article argues that international lawyers keep reproducing the same interpretation regarding the involvement of the Security Council in Haiti, Sierra Leone and Côte d’Ivoire, to the extent that these cases have become the normative markers of this narrative. The accretion of several writings upholding the same interpretation of these cases transforms them into normative markers of democratic governance discourses that help to prove an emerging customary norm.","PeriodicalId":37206,"journal":{"name":"Journal on the Use of Force and International Law","volume":"10 1","pages":"17 - 48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49559835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to issue 9(2)","authors":"C. Henderson","doi":"10.1080/20531702.2022.2150444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20531702.2022.2150444","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37206,"journal":{"name":"Journal on the Use of Force and International Law","volume":"9 1","pages":"241 - 242"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49421532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digest of State Practice: 1 January – 30 June 2022","authors":"P. Butchard, Jasmin Johurun Nessa","doi":"10.1080/20531702.2022.2145004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20531702.2022.2145004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37206,"journal":{"name":"Journal on the Use of Force and International Law","volume":"9 1","pages":"423 - 479"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42094324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Operation Olive Branch’ in Syria’s Afrin District: towards a new interpretation of the right of self-defence?","authors":"Fatima Mashi, Sofie Hamdi, Mohammad Salman","doi":"10.1080/20531702.2022.2097418","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20531702.2022.2097418","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Turkey’s ‘Operation Olive Branch’, carried out in Syria’s northern Afrin District in 2018, fuelled a debate around Turkey’s right to invoke Article 51 of the UN Charter against the Yekîneyên Parastina Gel (YPG). This article analyses whether ‘Operation Olive Branch’ is to be considered as an extensive interpretation of Article 51 of the UN Charter, given the absence of an agreement within the international community on the matter. On the basis of states’ positions regarding the Turkish military action in the Afrin District, on the one hand, and the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice regarding the right of self-defence, the UN Charter, state practice and legal doctrine, on the other, this study will demonstrate that Turkey’s argument of preventively operating according to the right of self-defence is not compatible with international law, and consequently constitutes a violation of the Article 2(4) prohibition on the use of force.","PeriodicalId":37206,"journal":{"name":"Journal on the Use of Force and International Law","volume":"9 1","pages":"324 - 351"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45024887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reconceptualising the right of self-defence against ‘imminent’ armed attacks","authors":"C. O’Meara","doi":"10.1080/20531702.2022.2097618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20531702.2022.2097618","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT A state’s right to act in self-defence against ‘imminent’ armed attacks remains an unsettled question of international law. Yet, states persist in justifying military actions on this basis. Absent a common definition of imminence, assessing the legality of these operations is practically impossible. Although imminence is traditionally understood as referring solely to the temporal proximity of an armed attack, for some this approach is insufficient. This article examines scholarship and examples of state practice that indicate that imminence may be viewed as comprising several contextual indicators that determine whether states may have recourse to self-defence. This conception of imminence raises fears of an expansive right of self-defence. Yet, this author concludes that such ‘contextual imminence’ stands as a proxy for jus ad bellum necessity. This conflation is perhaps unfortunate, but an orthodoxy regarding all forms of self-defence is thereby maintained, subject to the enduring legacy of the Caroline formula.","PeriodicalId":37206,"journal":{"name":"Journal on the Use of Force and International Law","volume":"9 1","pages":"278 - 323"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42395934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The cross-strait relationship between China and Taiwan in light of international law: not quite a mere domestic affair … ","authors":"Antonio Bultrini","doi":"10.1080/20531702.2022.2083374","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20531702.2022.2083374","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Taiwan is one of the most critical questions in current international affairs. China’s tough interpretation of the ‘one-China policy’ (there is one China, Taiwan belongs to it and is bound to reunite under the sole legitimate government, i.e. Beijing), is at odds with Taiwan increasingly distancing itself from the mainland. China no longer hides its military plans to gain control of Taiwan, should the latter persist in its determination not to reunite or formally declare its independence. The present article looks at two issues that are crucial and intertwined: the much-debated question concerning the status of Taiwan under international law, and the much … less debated question of whether it would be lawful for China to resort to armed force to establish its rule over Taiwan. Recent state practice highlights a significant trend towards restricting resort to force against stabilised, post-conflict, de facto entities, with Taiwan representing a paradigmatic case.","PeriodicalId":37206,"journal":{"name":"Journal on the Use of Force and International Law","volume":"9 1","pages":"391 - 422"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49241833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mixing oil and water? The interaction between jus ad bellum and jus in bello during armed conflicts","authors":"G. Cohen","doi":"10.1080/20531702.2022.2059154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20531702.2022.2059154","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article assesses the applicability of jus ad bellum rules during armed conflicts. It first presents the overlap between the jus ad bellum and jus in bello with respect to the use of armed interstate force, then rejects the ‘displacement’ approach, according to which jus ad bellum rules are inapplicable during armed conflicts, arguing for an interaction between the fields based on the facts prevailing before the launching of an attack. Such factual interaction could be determined pursuant to the intensity of the conflict, so that once a certain threshold is reached, the use of interstate force in self-defence is permissible, and jus ad bellum does not place any additional constraints on the attacker. The findings are applied to the alleged attacks by Israel on Syrian territory during the Syrian Civil War, with the author concluding that jus ad bellum fully applies due to the low intensity of the conflict.","PeriodicalId":37206,"journal":{"name":"Journal on the Use of Force and International Law","volume":"9 1","pages":"352 - 390"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48890266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}