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2022

Use of Force

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Twenty Years Of Drone Attacks, Mary Ellen O'Connell Nov 2022

Twenty Years Of Drone Attacks, Mary Ellen O'Connell

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On November 2, 2002, the United States conducted its first targeted killings using a drone. CIA agents based in Djibouti launched the drone’s two Hellfire missiles at a vehicle traveling in rural Yemen, killing six...


Russia-Ukraine: Resolving The World’S Most Dangerous Conflict, Mary Ellen O'Connell Feb 2022

Russia-Ukraine: Resolving The World’S Most Dangerous Conflict, Mary Ellen O'Connell

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Since late 2021, Russia has massed around 100,000 troops on the border with Ukraine, raising the specter of another use of force against its neighbor. The Russia-Ukraine crisis began in earnest in February 2014, when Russian troops spread out from their Black Sea naval base to take control of the Crimean Peninsula. Russia put forward a variety of familiar legal justifications at the time—intervention by invitation, humanitarian intervention, restoration of Russian borders, and self-defense. In my analysis, none of these attempts came close to excusing a serious violation of the United Nations Charter Article 2(4) prohibition on the use of …