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This book provides an accessible and engaging account of the contemporary laws of war. It highlights how, even though war has been outlawed and should be finished as an institution, states continue to claim that they can wage necessary wars of self-defence, engage in lawful killings in war, and imprison law-of-war detainees.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 1: The Multiple Meanings of War
- 2: Declarations of War and Neutrality
- 3: Outlawing War
- 4: The Use of Force after the UN Charter
- 5: War Powers in National Law
- 6: Triggering the International Law of Armed Conflict
- 7: Warfare - the Conduct of Hostilities
- 8: Belligerent Rights and the Future of Naval Economic Warfare
- 9: Victims of War
- 10: Accountability for Violations of the Laws of War
- Conclusion
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Andrew Clapham is Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, which he joined in 1997. He has been a member of the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan since October 2017. He is an Honorary Member of the International Commission of Jurists. In 2003 he was an Adviser on International Humanitarian Law to Sergio Vieira de Mello, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Iraq.
Zusammenfassung
This book provides an accessible and engaging account of the contemporary laws of war. It highlights how, even though war has been outlawed and should be finished as an institution, states continue to claim that they can wage necessary wars of self-defence, engage in lawful killings in war, and imprison law-of-war detainees.
Zusatztext
The book War by law professor Andrew Clapham is a flash of light. It is a flash of light not only because it reveals the oft-neglected meanings of international rules on war, but also because it organically depicts the essential logics of functioning of the modern laws of war and patiently deals with its intrinsic aporias.
