[PDF] War Economies And International Law eBook

Author : Mark B. Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 31,17 MB
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108483704

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This book describes how international law regulates the problems that arise where economic activity meets violent conflict.

Author : Michael Byers
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 22,27 MB
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 155584846X

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“Professor Byers’s book goes to the heart of some of the most bitterly contested recent controversies about the International Rule of Law.” —Chris Patten, Chancellor of Oxford University International law governing the use of military force has been the subject of intense public debate. Under what conditions is it appropriate, or necessary, for a country to use force when diplomacy has failed? Michael Byers, a widely known world expert on international law, weighs these issues in War Law. Byers examines the history of armed conflict and international law through a series of case studies of past conflicts, ranging from the 1837 Caroline Incident to the abuse of detainees by US forces at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Byers explores the legal controversies that surrounded the 1999 and 2001 interventions in Kosovo and Afghanistan and the 2003 war in Iraq; the development of international humanitarian law from the 1859 Battle of Solferino to the present; and the role of war crimes tribunals and the International Criminal Court. He also considers the unique influence of the United States in the evolution of this extremely controversial area of international law. War Law is neither a textbook nor a treatise, but a fascinating account of a highly controversial topic that is necessary reading for fans of military history and general readers alike. “Should be read, and pondered, by those who are seriously concerned with the legacy we will leave to future generations.” —Noam Chomsky

Author : Matthew Craven
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 14,29 MB
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 110849918X

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This is the first book to examine in detail the relationship between the Cold War and International Law.

Author : Christine Chinkin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 26,78 MB
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1107171210

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Examines the difficulties in applying international law to recent armed conflicts known as 'new wars'.

Author : Christopher J. Coyne
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1849808325

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The Handbook on the Political Economy of War highlights and explores important research questions and discusses the core elements of the political economy of war.

Author : Michael L. Gross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 30,46 MB
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1316194302

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As insurgencies rage, a burning question remains: how should insurgents fight technologically superior state armies? Commentators rarely ask this question because the catchphrase 'we fight by the rules, but they don't' is nearly axiomatic. But truly, are all forms of guerrilla warfare equally reprehensible? Can we think cogently about just guerrilla warfare? May guerrilla tactics such as laying improvised explosive devices (IEDs), assassinating informers, using human shields, seizing prisoners of war, conducting cyber strikes against civilians, manipulating the media, looting resources, or using nonviolence to provoke violence prove acceptable under the changing norms of contemporary warfare? The short answer is 'yes', but modern guerrilla warfare requires a great deal of qualification, explanation, and argumentation before it joins the repertoire of acceptable military behavior. Not all insurgents fight justly, but guerrilla tactics and strategies are also not always the heinous practices that state powers often portray them to be.

Author : Ben Goldsmith
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 16,53 MB
Release : 2010-06-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0857240048

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Presents the research on economic factors affecting peace and war. This title includes theoretical perspectives on the economic foundations of peace, violence and war within countries, connections between international trade and inter-state conflict, and the role of legal/institutional factors in international and internal conflict.

Author : Dan Kovalik
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 19,96 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1510755306

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"Kovalik helps cut through the Orwellian lies and dissembling which make so-called 'humanitarian' intervention possible." —Oliver Stone War is the fount of all the worst human rights violations―including genocide―and not its cure. This undeniable truth, which the framers of the UN Charter understood so well, is lost in today’s obsession with the oxymoron known as “humanitarian" intervention. No More War: How the West Violates International Law by Using 'Humanitarian' Intervention to Advance Economic and Strategic Interests sets out to reclaim the original intent of the Charter founders to end the scourge of war on the heels of the devastation wrought by WWII. The book begins with a short history of the West’s development as built upon the mass plunder of the Global South, genocide and slavery, and challenges the prevailing notion that the West is uniquely poised to enforce human rights through force. This book also goes through recent “humanitarian" interventions carried out by the Western powers against poorer nations (e.g., in the DRC, Congo, and Iraq) and shows how these have only created greater human rights problems – including genocide – than they purported to stop or prevent. No More War reminds the reader of the key lessons of Nuremberg – that war is the primary scourge of the world, the root of all the evils which international law seeks to prevent and eradicate, and which must be prevented. The reader is then taken through the UN Charter and other human rights instruments and their emphasis on the prevention of aggressive war.