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UN Charter And Article 2 4 On Force Article

The Use of Force

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Article 2(4) of the UN Charter states that All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force againstthe territorial integrity or political independence of any State, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.[footnoteRef:1] The use of force issue is one that should receive more attention in international law, especially with regard to the situation in Yemen today. States from Saudi Arabia to Iran to Syria to the US and Yemen itself are all members of the United Nations and should abide by Article 2(4), yet the conflict in Yemen persists and is often said to be a proxy war between Iran and a Saudi Arabia coalition of forces that includes the US.[footnoteRef:2] This dissertation proposes to assess Article 2(4) of the UN Charter in the light of the proxy war in Yemen, and to explain the legal problems that surround the conflict. As UN High Commissioner...

Yemen: An opportunity for IranSaudi Dialogue?[2016] 39 The Washington Quarterly 2,155] [3: TRT World, UN Expresses Deep Concern over Escalating Conflict in Yemen [2022] https://www.trtworld.com/middle-east/un-expresses-deep-concern-over-escalating-conflict-in-yemen-53788] [4: Thomas Walker and David Rousseau, Liberalism: A Theoretical and Empirical Assessment, in Cavelty and Balzacq (eds), Routledge Handbook of Security Studies, 22.] [5: Martha Finnemore, Legitimacy, Hypocrisy, and the Social Structure of Unipolarity ]2009] World…

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Esfandiary, D. and Tabatabai, A. ‘Yemen: An opportunity for Iran–SaudiDialogue?’ [2016] 39 The Washington Quarterly 2,155.

Finnemore, Martha. ‘Legitimacy, hypocrisy, and the social structure of unipolarity: Whybeing a unipole isn't all it's cracked up to be.’ [2009] 61 World Politics 1 (2009) 58.

TRT World, ‘UN Expresses Deep Concern over Escalating Conflict in Yemen’ [2022]https://www.trtworld.com/middle-east/un-expresses-deep-concern-over-escalating-conflict-in-yemen-53788

UN Charter, Chapter 1: Purposes and Principles.

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/un-charter/chapter-1

Walker, Thomas and David Rousseau, ‘Liberalism: A Theoretical and EmpiricalAssessment’, in Cavelty and Balzacq (eds), Routledge Handbook of Security Studies, 22.

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