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Author: Tanisha M. Fazal
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-05-15
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 1501719793
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"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: Samuel C. Duckett White
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-12-20
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9004464298
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers an exploration of unique laws and customs placed around warfare throughout history, from Indigenous Australians to the American Civil War.
Author: William H. Boothby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-03-29
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 1108427588
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA detailed and highly authoritative critical commentary appraising the vitally important United States Department of Defense Law of War Manual.
Author: Nikolay Koposov
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1108419720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA major contribution to our understanding of present-day historical consciousness through a study of memory laws across Europe.
Author: Robin Geiß
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-06-15
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1107171350
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn 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: E. L. Gaston
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781617700262
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: James D. Morrow
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-07-14
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1139992899
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOrder 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
Published: 1994-01-01
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780300070620
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: Peter H. Maguire
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 0231146477
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This is a revised edition of Law and war : an American story [published in 2000]."--T.p. verso.
Author: Michael Byers
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Published: 2007-12-01
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 155584846X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Professor Byers’s book goes to the heart of some of the most bitterly contested recent controversies about the International Rule of Law.” —Chris Patten, Chancellor of Oxford University International law governing the use of military force has been the subject of intense public debate. Under what conditions is it appropriate, or necessary, for a country to use force when diplomacy has failed? Michael Byers, a widely known world expert on international law, weighs these issues in War Law. Byers examines the history of armed conflict and international law through a series of case studies of past conflicts, ranging from the 1837 Caroline Incident to the abuse of detainees by US forces at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Byers explores the legal controversies that surrounded the 1999 and 2001 interventions in Kosovo and Afghanistan and the 2003 war in Iraq; the development of international humanitarian law from the 1859 Battle of Solferino to the present; and the role of war crimes tribunals and the International Criminal Court. He also considers the unique influence of the United States in the evolution of this extremely controversial area of international law. War Law is neither a textbook nor a treatise, but a fascinating account of a highly controversial topic that is necessary reading for fans of military history and general readers alike. “Should be read, and pondered, by those who are seriously concerned with the legacy we will leave to future generations.” —Noam Chomsky
