Do the Geneva Conventions Matter?

Do the Geneva Conventions Matter? provides a rich, comparative analysis of the laws that govern warfare and a more specific investigation relating to state practice and gives insight into how the Geneva regime has constrained guerrilla warfare and terrorism and the factors that affect protect human rights in wartime.

About the author

Matthew Evangelista is President White Professor of History and Political Science and former chair of the Department of Government at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA, where he teaches courses in international and comparative politics. His current research interests include international humanitarian law, separatist movements, and gender and conflict.

Nina Tannenwald is a faculty fellow at the Watson Institute and Director of the International Relations Program. She is also a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science.

Summary

Do the Geneva Conventions Matter? provides a rich, comparative analysis of the laws that govern warfare and a more specific investigation relating to state practice and gives insight into how the Geneva regime has constrained guerrilla warfare and terrorism and the factors that affect protect human rights in wartime.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Evangelista, Matthew (Professor of Political Scien Evangelista, Matthew Tannenwald Evangelista
• Assisted by: Matthew Evangelista (Editor), Evangelista Matthew (Editor), Nina Tannenwald (Editor), Tannenwald Nina (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9780199379774
• ISBN: 978-0-19-937977-4
• No. of pages: 376
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, LAW / International, Terrorism, armed struggle, Human rights, civil rights, International humanitarian law, Public international law: humanitarian law, Treaties & Other Sources Of International Law, Public international law: treaties and other sources, Geneva; convention