Publication

2017 - Cambridge University Press

Language

English

Word Count

152,000 words, Guess

Page Count

608 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101316622096
  • ISBN-139781316622094
  • Better World Books9781316622094
  • Open LibraryOL30580376M

Classifications

  • LCCKZ6385.C447 2016

Description

This book examines how international law fails to address the contemporary experience of what are known as 'new wars' - instances of armed conflict and violence in places such as Syria, Ukraine, Libya, Mali, the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan. International law, largely constructed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, rests to a great extent on the outmoded concept of war drawn from European experience - inter-state clashes involving battles between regular and identifiable armed forces. The book shows how different approaches are associated with different interpretations of international law, and, in some cases, this has dangerously weakened the legal restraints on war established after 1945. It puts forward a practical case for what it defines as second generation human security and the implications this carries for international law.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • International Law and New WarsCambridge University Press2017-01-01

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