Original scientific paper
The Use of Armed Force as a Response to Terrorist Attacks in the Context of the Right to Self-Defence
Rutvica Rusan Novokmet
orcid.org/0000-0002-6235-1012
; Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The subject of this paper is an analysis of the limitations of the legality of the use of armed force by States as a response to terrorist attacks committed by terrorist groups as non-State actors. A special emphasis is placed on the international legal framework which prescribes prerequisites for the use of armed force in the implementation of the right to self-defence. Modifications in the interpretation of the right to self-defence, initiated by a rising number of terrorist attacks, tend to justify the use of armed force in self-defence against non-State actors, which is not in accordance with international law. The author critically examines the expanded interpretation of the right to self-defence and proposes that other instruments be applied in accordance with the international legal framework, which States led by the UN Security Council can use in response to terrorist attacks.
Keywords
use of armed force; right to self-defence; terrorist groups; collective security system
Hrčak ID:
207495
URI
Publication date:
28.9.2018.
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