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INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE USE OF FORCE: WHATHAPPENS IN PRACTICE?1 MICHAEL WOOD*I. INTRODUCTIONKofi Annan, Secretary-General of the United Nations at the time of the 2003 Iraq conflict, has written: No principle of the Charter is more important than the principle of thenon-use of force as embodied in Article 2, paragraph 4 .. Secretaries-General confront many challenges in the course of their tenures but thechallenge that tests them and defines them inevitably involves the use offorce. 2 The same might be said of Government leaders and their legal aim of this article is to give some flavour of the role that the internationallaw on the use of force plays in practice when a Government is contemplating theuse of force internationally, or aiding or assisting others to do so, or even just beingpressed for a view on what others are about to do or h
* Barrister, 20 Essex Street; Member of the International Law Commission; Senior Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. 1 This article is based upon a lecture given at the Indian Society of International Law on 13 September 2013. It draws upon and updates earlier talks and writings, including M. Wood,
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