국제 법률전(法律戰)에서 미국의 국제법 활용방식 연구

Abstract

In modern societies in which armed attack is considered unlawful, each country fights a war without gunshot with three means. First, international legal warfare, second, psychological warfare, and third, media warfare. Currently, in South Korea, people are unfamiliar with the words, three warfare mentioned before and international legal warfare; however, China has already provided the meaning of three warfare through “Regulations for the CPLA on Political Work” revised in December 2003 and conducts studies of ‘international legal warfare,’ which is a war with the law as a weapon and countermeasures when it is in conflict with its opponents. In the past, the aspect of most countries’ international legal warfare has protected their own national interests to the maximum, utilizing the existing international laws. Meanwhile, the U.S. has shown its most active utilization of international laws as the most powerful country in the world, e.g. Changing or establishing international norms according to its own national interest; drawing U.N. Security Council’s resolution; and leading the creation of a new international organization. Thus, this study would be helpful for seeking Korea’s strategies for utilizing international legal warfare, investigating Iraq War in 2003, a representative case of the utilization of international laws by the U.S. and the way in which the U.S. has recently utilized international laws in the territorial dispute over the South China Sea.