"hard Power" and the European Convention on Human Rights

This book analyses the law of the European Convention on Human Rights as relevant to the exercise of 'hard power', which expression includes armed conflict, belligerent occupation, peacekeeping and peace-enforcing, anti-terrorism and anti-piracy operations, hybrid warfare, cyber-attack and targeted assassination.

About the author

Peter Kempees (1959), PhD (2019, Leiden), practised law in The Hague until joining the Registry of the European Court of Human Rights in 1992. His published works include, among others, the four-volume A Systematic Guide to the Case-Law of the European Court of Human Rights (Nijhoff, 1996-2000) and the monograph Thoughts on Article 15 of the European Convention on Human Rights (Wolf Legal Publishers, 2017).

Product details

• Authors: Peter Kempees
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.11.2020
• EAN: 9789004425637
• ISBN: 978-90-04-42563-7
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 232 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 728 g
• Series: International Studies in Human
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries