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Just War: New Customary International Law To Combat Violent Non-State Actor Groups?, Lisa Marie Holz
Just War: New Customary International Law To Combat Violent Non-State Actor Groups?, Lisa Marie Holz
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The issue that this study focused upon was the legitimacy of military interventions by a state against a violent non-state actor group located within another state's territory. The research sought to answer how interventions by the United States and its allies have evolved during the post 9/11 era. It additionally explored if the justification for military interventions had changed. This study used data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program and the United Nations Security Council to create a hybrid data-set and analyzed the data for the location and number of states participating in operations against violent non-state actors ("VNSAs"). This …