Given the inconsistency between textual and teleological interpretations of Article…
The origin of anticipatory self-defence in customary international law goes back…
Indeed only a few States such as Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States…
States and commentators have labelled self-defence against a future armed attack…
In this work, anticipatory self-defence is used as an umbrella concept covering every…
Preventive self-defence is used here to denote forceful measures taken against threats…
Pre-emptive self-defence refers to the exercise of self-defence against an imminent…
These doctrinal views are constructive for clarification of the imminence standard,…
‘Whether an armed attack may be regarded as “imminent” will fall to be assessed by…
Although the initiative of these States to set a standard for the imminence criterion…
Lastly, interceptive self-defence is suggested by Dinstein to refer to the exercise…
An important issue here is whether cyber operations directed at another State’s air…
The legal assessment of Operation Orchard shows how critical it may be to distinguish…