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Author : William H. Boothby,Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108427586
A detailed and highly authoritative critical commentary appraising the vitally important United States Department of Defense Law of War Manual.
Author : Michael Byers
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781555848460
“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
Author : W. M. Reisman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:848602610
Author : Robin Geiß,Andreas Zimmermann,Stefanie Haumer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107171350
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 : Ingrid Detter de Lupis Frankopan,Ingrid Detter Delupis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000-09-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521787750
D Types of war.
Author : Michael Howard,George J. Andreopoulos,Mark R. Shulman,Michael Eliot Howard
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0300070624
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 : Samuel C. Duckett White
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004464292
This book offers an exploration of unique laws and customs placed around warfare throughout history, from Indigenous Australians to the American Civil War.
Author : E. L. Gaston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Humanitarian law
ISBN : 1617700266
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 : Tanisha M. Fazal
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781501719790
"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 : Anton O. Petrov
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781789907599
Over recent decades, international humanitarian law has been shaped by the omnipresence of so-called expert manuals. Astute and engaging, this discerning book provides a comprehensive account of these black letter rules and commentaries produced by private expert groups and demonstrates why the general acceptance of these expert manuals is largely unjustified. The author innovatively links interdisciplinary insights to the needs of military lawyers in practice, showing the pitfalls of relying on private manuals as arguable restatements and interpretations of the law 'as it is'.
Author : Antony Lamb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136255427
This book is an examination of the permissions, prohibitions and obligations found in just war theory, and the moral grounds for laws concerning war. Pronouncing an action or course of actions to be prohibited, permitted or obligatory by just war theory does not thereby establish the moral grounds of that prohibition, permission or obligation; nor does such a pronouncement have sufficient persuasive force to govern actions in the public arena. So what are the moral grounds of laws concerning war, and what ought these laws to be? Adopting the distinction between jus ad bellum and jus in bello, the author argues that rules governing conduct in war can be morally grounded in a form of rule-consequentialism of negative duties. Looking towards the public rules, the book argues for a new interpretation of existing laws, and in some cases the implementation of completely new laws. These include recognising rights of encompassing groups to necessary self-defence; recognising a duty to rescue; and considering all persons neither in uniform nor bearing arms as civilians and therefore fully immune from attack, thus ruling out ‘targeted’ or ‘named’ killings. This book will be of much interest to students of just war theory, ethics of war, international law, peace and conflict studies, and Security Studies/IR in general.
Author : Gary D. Solis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 923 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107135604
This book introduces students to the essential questions of the law of armed conflict and international humanitarian law.
Author : Pablo Kalmanovitz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198790259
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.
Author : Heather Harrison Dinniss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107011083
An analysis of the status of computer network attacks in international law.
Author : Sean McFate
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062843609
"Stunning. Sean McFate is a new Sun Tzu." -Admiral James Stavridis (retired), former Supreme Allied Commander at NATO An Economist Book of the Year 2019 Some of the principles of warfare are ancient, others are new, but all described in The New Rules of War will permanently shape war now and in the future. By following them Sean McFate argues, we can prevail. But if we do not, terrorists, rogue states, and others who do not fight conventionally will succeed—and rule the world. The New Rules of War is an urgent, fascinating exploration of war—past, present and future—and what we must do if we want to win today from an 82nd Airborne veteran, former private military contractor, and professor of war studies at the National Defense University. War is timeless. Some things change—weapons, tactics, technology, leadership, objectives—but our desire to go into battle does not. We are living in the age of Durable Disorder—a period of unrest created by numerous factors: China’s rise, Russia’s resurgence, America’s retreat, global terrorism, international criminal empires, climate change, dwindling natural resources, and bloody civil wars. Sean McFate has been on the front lines of deep state conflicts and has studied and taught the history and practice of war. He’s seen firsthand the horrors of battle and understands the depth and complexity of the current global military situation. This devastating turmoil has given rise to difficult questions. What is the future of war? How can we survive? If Americans are drawn into major armed conflict, can we win? McFate calls upon the legends of military study Carl von Clausewitz, Sun Tzu, and others, as well as his own experience, and carefully constructs the new rules for the future of military engagement, the ways we can fight and win in an age of entropy: one where corporations, mercenaries, and rogue states have more power and ‘nation states’ have less. With examples from the Roman conquest, World War II, Vietnam, Afghanistan and others, he tackles the differences between conventional and future war, the danger in believing that technology will save us, the genuine leverage of psychological and ‘shadow’ warfare, and much more. McFate’s new rules distill the essence of war today, describing what it is in the real world, not what we believe or wish it to be.
