| Avril McDonald, John Dugard, William Fenrick, Hans-Peter Gasser, Christopher Greenwood, Hortensia Gutierrez Posse - 2011 - 892 strani
...State Daniel Webster.66 For Webster, the requisite precondition, known as the Caroline standard, is 'a necessity of self-defence, instant, overwhelming,...no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation '.67 More recently, Yoram Dinstein rejected the terminology 'anticipatory' in favour of 'interceptive'... | |
| Niels M. Blokker, N. J. Schrijver - 2011 - 548 strani
...entails action in anticipation of an attack, According to the famous Caroline formula there must be 'a necessity of self-defence, instant, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means and no moment for deliberation'.'4 It endorses actions when the attack is imminent but only in circumstances where the... | |
| David Malone - 2004 - 764 strani
...Caroline on December 29, 1837, Webster famously stated that for self-defense to be invoked there must be "a necessity of self-defence, instant, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation."24 The case addressed a modern question. What is the proper response of a state to an... | |
| Dominic McGoldrick - 2004 - 396 strani
...'imminence'.76 The orthodox test for self-defence is that in the Caroline Case, there must be evidence of 'a necessity of self-defence, instant, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means and no moment for deliberation'.77 The ICJ in the Nicaragua Case used the language of imminence,78 although it was in... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Foreign Affairs Committee - 2004 - 180 strani
...Webster wrote to the British Government outlining an obligation on states acting in self-defence to show "a necessity of self-defence, instant, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means, and no moment of deliberation". See DJ Harris, Cases and Materials on International Law, (London 1998) p 895 All... | |
| Ineta Ziemele - 2003 - 364 strani
...gunboats to force Venezuela to pay its debts to nationals of these States. These are clearly not cases of 'necessity of self-defence, instant, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means and no moment for deliberation'14. Starting from the beginning of the 20th century, in the domain of legal regulation... | |
| Jane Boulden, Thomas G. Weiss - 2004 - 272 strani
...Canada and a newly independent United States gave rise to the doctrine of "a necessity of self-defense, instant, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation" and the idea that responsive measures may be neither "unreasonable" nor "excessive "2" What does this... | |
| Arthur Meier Schlesinger - 2004 - 184 strani
...that preemptive reaction could be justified only if the attacker showed "a necessity of selfdefense, instant, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation." Preventive war has no such claim to legitimacy. It is founded on prophecy, a dubious source. The rise... | |
| Charles Tiefer - 2004 - 466 strani
...mere raiders based in the territory of another nation: there must be a "necessity of self-defense, instant, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation." 21 At the beginning of World War II, Germany's and Japan's abuse of preemptive excuses for war—the... | |
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