A Farewell to Wars

Vorwort
Analyses different kinds of restraints military, legal, economic, diplomatic to the interstate use of force.

Autorentext
Hans Blix is a Swedish diplomat who has previously served as Foreign Minister of Sweden (19781979), Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (19811995) and Chairman of the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission for Iraq (20002003). He has previously published Disarming Iraq (2004) and Why Nuclear Disarmament Matters (2008).

Zusammenfassung
With decades of experience as an international lawyer, diplomat and head of UN Iraq inspections, Hans Blix analyzes conflicts between states. He finds that since 1945, military deterrents, fear of nuclear war, and diplomacy are among the factors that have prevented wars between great powers and restrained interstate uses of force.

Inhalt

1. Introduction; 2. Interstate uses of force, tensions, and restraints by regions since World War II; 3. Interstate uses of force, tensions, and restraints during major phases of international relations since World War II; 4. Incentives to the interstate uses of force and restraints; 5. Historical evolution of norms and other means to restrain the use of force; 6. Overview of disincentives to and restraints on the interstate use of force; 7. Military strength to deter others from using force; 8. Nuclear and other non-conventional weapons and means as deterrents and threats; 9. Disarmament as restraint on the use of force; 10. Preventing the interstate use of force by preventing or solving conflicts: mediation, arbitration, fact-finding, diplomacy; 11. Restraints on the interstate use of force through legal norms; 12. UN Charter articles relating to the use of force; 13. The Security Council may use or authorize states or regional organizations to use force; 14. The right to individual and collective self-defence as an exception to Article 2:4; 15. Interventions triggered by factors unforeseen at the adoption of the Charter's ban on the interstate use of force; 16. Interventions seeking regime change, protection of people or punishment; 17. Findings regarding the role of norms to restrain the interstate use of force; 18. States are saying farewell to wars.