The Legitimacy of Use of Force in Public and Islamic International Law

This book investigates the legitimacy deficits of two potentially conflicting legal systems, namely Public and Islamic international law. It discusses the challenges that Public international law is being presented within the context of its relationship with Islamic international law. It explores how best to overcome these challenges through a comparative examination of state practices on the use of force. It highlights the legal-political legacies that evolved surrounding the claims of the legitimacy of use of force by armed non-state actors, states, and regional organizations. This book offers a critical analysis of these legacies in line with the Islamic Shari'a law, United Nations Charter, state practices, and customs. It concludes that the legitimacy question has reached a vantage point where it cannot be answered either by Islamic or Public international law as a mutually exclusive legal system. Instead, Public international law must take a coherent approach within the existing legal framework.

Explores the legitimacy of Use of Force, one of the most contested topics in current international affairs.Analyses the differences between two potentially conflicting legal systems, proposing how the two could be complementary. Argues how different cultural and religious views can lead to different interpretations of what forms of power people believe to be justified.

Autorentext

Mohammad Z. Sabuj, is a Barrister (Lincoln's Inn), and Lecturer in Law, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

Inhalt

Introduction.- Chapter 1: The Legitimacy of Public International Law on the Use of Force.- Chapter 2: Responses to the Legitimacy of Use of Force.- Chapter 3: Use of Force in Islamic International Law.- Chapter 4: Legitimacy of Use of Force in Islamic International Law: The Legal-Political Legacies.- Chapter 5: Answer to the Legitimacy Question: A Coherent Approach.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.