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Various books, pamphlets, and periodicals, solicited and unsolx-Ited, are received from time to time by the editor of the McLtary Lam Remu,. With Volume 80,the Revieic began adding short descriptive comments to the standard bibliographic information published m previou~volume8 The number of publications received makes fonnal rev~ewof the majority of them impossible. Description of a publica. tion in this section, however, does not preclude B subsequent formal rev~ewof that publication in the Reuiew.

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The publications noted in this section, like many of the books for. mally reviewed in the Milztary Lou Reu~eu,have been added to the library of The Judge Advocate General's School The School thanks the publishers and authors who have made the books available for this purpose

Dinstein, Yoram, War, Aggieasion and Self-Defence. Cambridge: Grotius Publications Limited, 1988. Pages: 278. Index of Persons, Index of Subjects, Table of Cases, Table ofTreaties. Price: S95.00. Publisher's address: Grotius Publications Limited, P.O. Box 115, Cambridge CB3 9BP, United Kingdom.

One of the most intractable problems in international law LS how to achieve effective restraints on the use of force by one state against another. The enduring relevancy and practical urgency of the issue can be eeen in the mynad of regional conflicts ongoing in the world today.

The nature of war. both between states and within states, is the focus of this detailed study by Yoram Dinstem, Professor of International Law of Tel-Aviv Univeraay. Professor Dinstem draws on the historical ongins of the attempts at defining war and aggression to demonstrate the enonnous difficulties involved in articulating the concepts. He further traces the evolution of these concepts through several centuries of efforts by scholars seeking to distinguish the vmous f o m of med mnflid under international law in the bmader search for controls on aggression.

Professor Dinstein next examinee the current treatment of aggres. smn under the United Nations Charter and the variou resolutions of

the U N. General Assemblj He analyzes ~n detail arncle 2141 of the Charter, which prohihits the use of force...