Collective self-defence

Yoram Dinstein

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511920622.015

9 - Collective self-defence

from Part III - Exceptions to the prohibition of the use of inter-State force

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012

Yoram Dinstein

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The four categories of collective self-defence

734. The phrase ‘individual or collective self-defence’, as used in Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations (quoted supra 498), is not easily comprehensible. A close examination of the text, in light of the practice of States, shows that more than a simple dichotomy is involved. It seems necessary to distinguish between no less than four categories of self-defence: (i) individual self-defence individually exercised; (ii) individual self-defence collectively exercised; (iii) collective self-defence individually exercised; and (iv) collective self-defence collectively exercised.

Individual self-defence individually exercised

735. The first category represents the most straightforward implementation of the right of self-defence, and it has been dealt with in Chapter 8: Arcadia perpetrates an armed attack against Utopia, and in response Utopia invokes self-defence. This is a one-on-one forcible encounter, and the right of individual self-defence is exercised individually.

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Information: War, Aggression and Self-Defence , pp. 278 - 302

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511920622.015 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2011

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