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Targeting in International Law - Counterinsurgency Legal Materiality of Principle of Distinction

English · Paperback / Softback

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This book is about how distinctions are drawn between civilians and combatants in modern warfare and how the legal principle of distinction depends on the means through which combatants make themselves visibly distinguishable.

List of contents










1. Visibility, Materiality, and Targeting in Contemporary Counterinsurgency 2. Knowledge-Vision: The Making of a Legitimate Human Target 3. Military Uniform as a Technology of Visuality 4. Targeting in Counterinsurgency 5. From the Military Uniform to the Disposition Matrix: 'If We Decide [Someone] is a Bad Person, The People With Him Are Also Bad' 6. Conclusion


About the author










Amin Parsa is an assistant professor in sociology of law at Halmstad University, Sweden, and an affiliate researcher of Sociology of Law Department at Lund University, Sweden. He holds a doctoral degree in public international law from Lund University. His primary research interest concerns the use of advanced digital technologies in the context of armed conflicts as well as border control practices.


Product details

Authors Amin Parsa, Amin (Amin Parsa Is Senior Lecturer At Lund Parsa
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd.
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 06.05.2025
 
EAN 9780367640552
ISBN 978-0-367-64055-2
No. of pages 172
Series Interventions
Subjects Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education

POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Politics & government, Politics and government, Drones;Camouflage;International Law;Counterinsurgency;War

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