Editing Preventive war (section)

==Criticism==
The majority view is that a preventive war undertaken without the approval of the [[United Nations]] is illegal under the modern framework of [[international law]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/04/north-korea-preventive-war/523833/|title=How America Shed the Taboo Against Preventive War|last=Beinart|first=Peter|date=2017-04-21|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-13}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|last1=Warren|first1=Aiden|title=Self-Defense in International Law: Preemptive/Preventive Requisites|date=2014|work=Governing the Use-of-Force in International Relations: The Post 9/11 US Challenge on International Law|pages=23–45|editor-last=Warren|editor-first=Aiden|series=New Security Challenges Series|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|language=en|doi=10.1057/9781137411440_3|isbn=9781137411440|last2=Bode|first2=Ingvild|editor2-last=Bode|editor2-first=Ingvild}}</ref><ref>{{citation |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UQajT7Bqf-MC&q=un+charter&pg=PT97 |publisher = Oxford UP |editor1 = Henry Shue |editor2 = David Rodin |title=Preemption: military action and moral justification |chapter=The False Promise of Preventive War |author=Suzanne Uniacke |year=2007 |page=88|isbn = 9780199233137 }}</ref> The consensus is that preventive war "goes beyond what is acceptable in international law"<ref>{{cite book|title=International Law (6th edn)|last=Shaw|first=Malcolm|author-link=Malcolm Shaw (academic)|year=2008|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|isbn=978-0-521-72814-0|page=1140}}</ref> and lacks legal basis.<ref>{{cite book|title=Principles of Public International Law|last=Brownlie|first=Ian|author-link=Ian Brownlie|year=2008|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0-19-921176-0|page=734}}</ref> The UN [[High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change]] stopped short of rejecting the concept outright but suggested that there is no right to preventive war. If there are good grounds for initiating preventive war, the matter should be put to the [[UN Security Council]], which can authorize such action,<ref>https://www.unog.ch/80256EDD006B8954/(httpAssets)/C9B1B6D819968E83C1256F5E00597208/$file/Report+of+the+High-level+Panel+on+Threats+Challenges+and+Change.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123052413/https://www.unog.ch/80256EDD006B8954/(httpAssets)/C9B1B6D819968E83C1256F5E00597208/$file/Report+of+the+High-level+Panel+on+Threats+Challenges+and+Change.pdf |date=2021-01-23 }} p.54</ref> given that one of the Council's main functions under Chapter VII of the [[Charter of the United Nations|UN Charter]] ("Action with Respect to Threats to the Peace, Breaches of the Peace, and Acts of Aggression") is to enforce the obligation of member states under Article 4, Paragraph 2 to "refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state . . .<ref>{{cite web | url=https://un.org/en/about-us/un-charter/full-text | title=United Nations Charter (Full text) }}</ref> The Charter's drafters assumed that the Council might need to employ preventive force to forestall aggression such as initiated by Nazi Germany in the 1930s.<ref>"One of the fundamental purposes of the Charter is to provide forces which will be immediately available to the Security Council to take action to prevent a breach of the peace."Senate Executive Report No. 8, "to Accompany Executive F," 79th Cong. (1945).</ref>