The change of state practice In regards to preemptive self-defense in the presence of nuclear threat: the possibility of preemptive attack by China against North Korea, US invasion of Iraq (2003), Israel bombing Osirak in Iraq (1981) and Israel bombing Al Kibar (2007)

The problem that the project discusses is: state practice in the presence of a nuclear threat challenges self-defense requirement under Article 51 of UN Charter “ the occurrence of an armed attack". In fact, states claim that the imminence of the nuclear threat and necessity of an armed attack regul...

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