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Collective Self-defence
Collective Self-defence
Embracing mainstream international law, this section on collective self-defence explores the context, history and effect of the area of the law covered here.
Resources
Further Reading
- The entry “collective self-defence” in the Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (currently, the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law, 2009), Oxford University Press
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