Contents
Part I. The Legal Nature of War:
1. What is war? 2. The course of war
Part II. The Illegality of War:
3. An historical perspective of the legal status of war
4. The contemporary prohibition of the use of interstate force
5. The criminality of war of aggression
6. Controversial consequences of the change in the legal status of war
Part III. Exceptions to the Prohibition of the Use of Interstate Force:
7. The concept of self-defence
8. The modality of individual self-defence
9. Collective self-defence
10. Collective security