This book focuses on issues arising in the course of hostilities between States, emphasizing the most recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Main themes considered are lawful and unlawful combatants, war crimes (including command responsibility and defenses), prohibited weapons, the distinction between combatants and civilians, legitimate military objectives, and the protection of the enviro…
There has been considerable debate in the international community as to the legality of the forceful actions in Kosovo in 1999, Afghanistan in 2002 and Iraq in 2003 under the United Nations Charter. There has been consensus, however, that the use of force in all these situations had to be both proportional and necessary. Against the background of these recent armed conflicts, this book offers t…
This book contents: 1. Is there an Enduring Logic of Conflict in World Politics? 2. Origins of the Great Twentieth-Century Conflicts. 3. Balance of Power and World War I. 4. The Failure of Collective Security and World War II. 5. The Cold War. 6. Intervention, Institutions, and Regional Conflicts. 7. Interdependence and Globalization. 8. The Information Age. 9. A New World Order?
*Fyi: The title of this book is beside The publication of these volumes is especially timely, in view of the pervasive and deepening concern aroused by military excesses and atrocities in recent years. In the United States, attention has naturally been concentrated on the fighting in Indochina. But the mere mention of Indonesia, Biafra, and East Pakistan is enough of a reminder that war crim…
*Fyi: The title of this book is beside The publication of these volumes is especially timely, in view of the pervasive and deepening concern aroused by military excesses and atrocities in recent years. In the United States, attention has naturally been concentrated on the fighting in Indochina. But the mere mention of Indonesia, Biafra, and East Pakistan is enough of a reminder that war crim…
This volume brings together contributions from leading academic authorities and legal practitioners on the situation of civilians in the grey zone between human rights and the laws of war. The chapters in Part 1 address key contested or boundary issues in defining the rights of civilians or non-combatants in today's conflicts. Those in Part 2 examine remedies and current mechanisms for redress …
The San Remo Manual ia a contemporary restatement - together with some progressive development of the law applicable to armed conflicts at sea, and has been drafted by an international group of specialists in international law and naval experts convened by the International Institute of Humanitarian Law. The last such restatement was undertaken by the Institute of International Law in 1913, and…