Book Description
A detailed and highly authoritative critical commentary appraising the vitally important United States Department of Defense Law of War Manual.
Author : William H. Boothby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 45,52 MB
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 1108427588
A detailed and highly authoritative critical commentary appraising the vitally important United States Department of Defense Law of War Manual.
Author : Tanisha M. Fazal
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,11 MB
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 1501719793
"This book assesses the unintended consequences of the proliferation of the laws of war for both interstate and civil wars over the past two centuries"--
Author : E. L. Gaston
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,15 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Humanitarian law
ISBN : 9781617700262
The Laws of War and 21st Century Conflict explores how international law considers and confronts the so-called new warfare. To many, modern conflict appears unlike any we have known before. A modern battlefield might as easily be found in an urban shopping mall or in the frontline trenches of a failed state. Weaponry that once populated science fiction novels and movies is now a reality, with unmanned aerial drones used against military targets in several countries and automated robots replacing some soldiers on the battlefield. Globalization and the diffusion of technology have eroded state controls and empowered other actors, from terrorist groups to mercenaries. Now, the most deadly threats might be activated by the push of a cell-phone button or from a computer hacker's screen on the other side of the world.
Author : Adam Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 14,22 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Humanitäres Völkerrecht - Quelle
ISBN : 9780198256571
The first edition of this book became a standard work in the field, and it has been extensively revised and updated for the second edition. It is prepared with assistance from the official Depositaries of the various international agreements, and is an essential reference book for statesmen and diplomats, lawyers, journalists, and students of international relations and law. From reviews of the first edition: `Roberts and Guelff rely on the documents to speak for themselves, and are right to do so. Their becoming generally available in this neat and usable form is an event of much importance for all who take a serious interest in humanitarian law and endeavour, and the limitation of men's violence towards men.'New Society
Author : Robin Geiß
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 23,25 MB
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107171350
An analysis of the role of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in international norm creation and the progressive development of international humanitarian law.
Author : John Fabian Witt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 44,7 MB
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1416569839
By one of the nation's foremost legal historians, a groundbreaking history of the pioneering American role in establishing the modern laws of war. This book is a compelling story of ideals under pressure and a landmark contribution to our understanding of the American experience.
Author : Samuel C. Duckett White
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 42,87 MB
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004464298
This book offers an exploration of unique laws and customs placed around warfare throughout history, from Indigenous Australians to the American Civil War.
Author : James D. Morrow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 33,30 MB
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139992899
Order within Anarchy focuses on how the laws of war create strategic expectations about how states and their soldiers will act during war, which can help produce restraint. The success of the laws of war depends on three related factors: compliance between warring states and between soldiers on the battlefield, and control of soldiers by their militaries. A statistical study of compliance of the laws of war during the twentieth century shows that joint ratification strengthens both compliance and reciprocity, compliance varies across issues with the scope for individual violations, and violations occur early in war. Close study of the treatment of prisoners of war during World Wars I and II demonstrates the difficulties posed by states' varied willingness to limit violence, a lack of clarity about what restraint means, and the practical problems of restraint on the battlefield.
Author : Michael Howard
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 10,40 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780300070620
This book explores not only the formal constraints on the conduct of war throughout Western history but also the unwritten conventions about what is permissible in the course of military operations. Ranging from classical antiquity to the present, eminent historians discuss the legal and cultural regulation of violence in such areas as belligerent rights, the treatment of prisoners and civilians, the observing of truces and immunities, the use of particular weapons, siege warfare, codes of honor, and war crimes. The book begins with a general overview of the subject by Michael Howard. The contributors then discuss the formal and informal constraints on conducting war as they existed in classical antiquity, the age of chivalry, early modern Europe, colonial America, and the age of Napoleon. They also examine how these constraints have been applied to wars at sea, on land, and in the air, planning for nuclear war, and national liberation struggles, in which one of the participants is not an organized state. The book concludes with reflections by Paul Kennedy and George Andreopoulos on the main challenges facing the quest for humanitarian norms in warfare in the future.
Author : Pablo Kalmanovitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 25,35 MB
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 0198790252
Two broad competing normative conceptions of war can be distinguished in the history of legal and political thought. The first and nowadays more familiar belongs to the tradition of "just war." It sees war as an instrument of justice, indeed the most extreme form of supra-national lawenforcement, justified only in the most serious cases of violation of right. The second conception has been labelled "lawful", "legitimate", or "regular war", where war is not enforcement of justice, but a legally regulated procedure governing the pursuit of conflicting legitimate claims amongequal and autonomous political entities.This book sheds light on the relationship between law and morals in armed conflict, and can be read as a historical argument against the disappearance of the regular war concept. Kalmanovitz highlights three important contemporary challenges: the juridification of aggression and the "turn to ethics"in international law; the progressive individualization of war; and the predominance of asymmetrical warfare and armed nonstate actors.This study of the regular war tradition brings historical and theoretical perspective to these recent conceptual transformations, which undermine the fundamental and long-standing distinction between war and police action. It contributes to clarify the stakes in the erosion of internationalpluralism and the normative depoliticization of war. In revisiting the regular war tradition, a clearer sense of these ongoing transformations is realised, inspiring fresh perspectives on the justifiability of war.