Interventions of Afghanistan and Iraq by the United States after September 11 and International Law

The main objective of this thesis is to evaluate if the US interventions of Afghanistan and Iraq conform to international law.The first chapter gives the general rules of use of force and self-defence under the framework of the UN Charter. In the first chapter, Article 51 of the UN Charter, limitations on the right to use force in self-defense, the notion of armed attack, use of force against terrorism, pre-emptive self-defence are discussed and two examples of preventive self defence are given.The second chapter focuses on the September 11 attacks, the UN Resolutions about the attacks, Bush Doctrine, interventions of Afghanistan and Iraq, Security Council resolutions in relation with the interventions and conformity of them to international law. The last part is the evaluation of the effects of September Eleven attacks on international law.