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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Christopher Ford and Amichai Cohen Klappentext Ten years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2011, Rethinking the Law of Armed Conflict in an Age of Terrorism, edited by Christopher Ford and Amichai Cohen, brings together a range of interdisciplinary experts to examine the problematic encounter between international law and challenges presented by conflicts between developed states and non-state actors, such as international terrorist groups. Through examinations of the counter-terrorist experiences of the United States, Israel, and Colombia-coupled with legal and historical analyses of trends in international humanitarian law-the authors place post-9/11 practice in the context of the international legal community's broader struggle over the substantive content of international rules constraining state behavior in irregular wars and explore trends in the development of these rules. From the beginning of international efforts to rewrite the laws of armed conflict in the 1970s, the legal rules to govern irregular conflicts of the "state-on-nonstate" variety have been contested terrain. Particularly in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, policymakers, lawyers, and scholars have debated the merits, relevance, and applicability of what are said to be competing "war" and "law enforcement" paradigms of legal constraint-and even the degree to which international law can be said to apply to counter-terrorist conflicts at all. Ford & Cohen's volume puts such debates in historical and analytical context, and offers readers an insight into where the law has been headed in the fraught years since September 2001. The contributors provide the reader with differing perspectives upon these questions, but together their analyses make clear that law-governed restraint remains a cardinal value in counter-terrorist war, even as the law stands revealed as being much more contested and indeterminate than many accounts would have it. Rethinking the Law of Armed Conflict in an Age of Terrorism provides an important conceptual framework through which to view the development of the law as the policy and legal communities move into the second decade of the "global war on terrorism." Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction- Rethinking Armed Conflict in an Age of Terrorism by Christopher A. FordChapter One- The Law that Turned Against Its Drafters: Guerrilla-Combatants and the First Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions by Ariel ZemachChapter Two- The Strange Pretensions of Contemporary Humanitarian Law by Jeremy RabkinChapter Three- Targeted Killing: The Israeli Experience by Steven DavidChapter Four- Guarding the Guards in the War on Terrorism by Yuval ShanyChapter Five- The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Puzzle: We Know How We Got Here-Now, What Do We Do? by John H. ShenefieldChapter Six- Terrorism-related Adjudication by Amichai CohenChapter Seven- Necessity, Proportionality, and the Distinction in Non-Traditional Conflicts: The Unfortunate Case Study of the Goldstone Report by Elizabeth SamsonChapter Eight- Confronting Terrorism: Human Rights Law, or the Law of War? by Juan Carlos Gomez RamirezChapter Nine- Living in the 'New Normal': Modern War, Nonstate Actors, and the Future of Law by Christopher A. FordChapter Ten- Some Conclusions and Thoughts for the Future by Amichai CohenAbout the AuthorsIndex...
