International Law and New Wars

Informationen zum Autor Christine Chinkin is Emerita Professor of International Law and Director of the Centre for Women, Peace and Security at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and William Cook overseas faculty member of the University of Michigan Law School. She is a leading expert on international law and human rights law, especially the international human rights of women. Klappentext International Law and New Wars 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. Zusammenfassung This book provides an introduction to international law as it relates to the use of force and to competing approaches of security that can be identified in the context of 'new wars'. It examines topics including weapons! human rights! gender and peacekeeping! using case studies from a number of recent conflicts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Conceptual Framework: 1. Introduction; 2. Sovereignty and the authority to use force; 3. The relevance of international law; Part II. Jus ad Bellum: 4. Self-defence as a justification for war: the geopolitical and war on terror models; 5. The humanitarian model for recourse to use force; Part III. Jus in Bello: 6. How force is used; 7. Weapons; Part IV. Jus Post-Bellum: 8. 'Post-conflict' and governance; 9. The liberal peace: peacemaking, peacekeeping and peacebuilding; 10. Justice and accountability; Part V. The Way Forward: 11. Second generation human security; 12. What does human security require of international law?...

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• Authors: C. M. Chinkin, Christine Chinkin, Christine (London School of Economics and Chinkin, Christine (London School of Economics and Political Science) Chinkin, Christine Kaldor Chinkin, Chinkin Christine, Mary Kaldor, Mary (London School of Economics and Political Science) Kaldor, Kaldor Mary
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.04.2017
• EAN: 9781316622094
• ISBN: 978-1-316-62209-4
• No. of pages: 608
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, HISTORY / Military / General, Military history: post WW2 conflicts, LAW / International, LAW / Public, Modern warfare, International humanitarian law, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Public international law: humanitarian law, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General