New Battlefields/Old Laws : Critical Debates on Asymmetric Warfare /

An internationally-recognized authority on constitutional law, national security law, and counterterrorism, William C. Banks believes changing patterns of global conflict are forcing a reexamination of the traditional laws of war. The Hague Rules, the customary laws of war, and the post-1949 law of...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Banks, William C. (Contribuidor), Banks, William (Editor ), Barnidge, Robert P. (Contribuidor), Corn, Geoffrey S. (Contribuidor), Crane, David M. (Contribuidor), Moodrick-Even Khen, Hilly (Contribuidor), Nevers, Renée de (Contribuidor), Reisner, Daniel (Contribuidor), Richemond-Barak, Daphné (Contribuidor), Rose, Gregory (Contribuidor), Talbot Jensen, Eric (Contribuidor), Zoli, Corri (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2011]
Colección:Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare
Temas:
Asymmetric warfare.
Humanitarian law.
Terrorism > Prevention > Law and legislation.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Introduction.Toward an Adaptive International Humanitarian Law
  • Critical debate I. Threshold Issues in Defining Twenty-first-Century Armed Conflicts
  • One. Extraterritorial Law Enforcement or Transnational Counterterrorist Military Operations
  • Chapter Two. Preventive Detention of Individuals Engaged in Transnational Hostilities
  • Critical Debate II. Status and Liabilities of Nonstate Actors Engaged in Hostilities
  • Chapter Three. "Jousting at Windmills"
  • Chapter Four. Direct Participation in Hostilities
  • Chapter Five. Nonstate Actors in Armed Conflicts
  • Critical Debate III. Changing Twenty-first-Century Battlefields and Armed Forces
  • Chapter Six. Children as Direct Participants in Hostilities
  • Chapter Seven. Private Military Contractors and Changing Norms for the Laws of Armed Conflict
  • Critical Debate IV. Military Necessity and Humanitarian Priorities in International Humanitarian Law: Productive Tension or Irreconcilable Differences?
  • Chapter Eight. The Principle of Proportionality Under International Humanitarian Law and Operation Cast Lead
  • Chapter Nine. Humanizing Irregular Warfare
  • Notes
  • Contributor bios
  • Index

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