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San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 42.00Unique contemporary restatement of the law of war at sea, with explanation providing expert commentary. more...
The Politics of Military Occupation
Edinburgh University Press 2009; US$ 112.00Military occupation is a recurrent feature of modern international politics and yet has received little attention from political scientists. This book sets out to remedy this neglect, offering:*an account of military occupation as a form of government*an assessment of key trends in the development of military occupations over the last two centuries*an... more...
Freedom from Past Injustices
Edinburgh University Press 2012; US$ 104.00Should contemporary citizens provide material redress to right past wrongs?. There is a widespread belief that contemporary citizens should take responsibility for rectifying past wrongs. Nahshon Perez challenges this view, questioning attempts to aggregate dead wrongdoers with living people, and examining ideas of intergenerational collective responsibility... more...
IMPLEMENTING INTNL HUMANITARIA
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 54.95Implementing International Humanitarian Law examines the international humanitarian law rules and their application by the ad hoc tribunals with regard to the substantive laws of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal Rwanda (ICTR). The practice of the ICTY and the ICTR and their... more...
Innocent Civilians
Palgrave Macmillan 2002; US$ 155.00Why is it that soldiers may be killed in war but civilians may not be killed? By tracing the evolution of the principle of non-combatant immunity in Western thought from its medieval religious origins to its modern legal status, Colm McKeogh attempts to answer this question. In doing so he highlights the unsuccessful attempts to reconcile warfare with... more...
Reading Humanitarian Intervention
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 48.00During the 1990s, humanitarian intervention seemed to promise a world in which human rights would be privileged over national interests or imperial ambitions. Orford argues that humanitarian intervention had far more exploitative effects. What, if anything, has been lost in the move from humanitarian intervention to the war on terror? more...
Accountability of Armed Opposition Groups in International Law
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 50.00Most conflicts are internal, yet under international law, accountability for acts committed by armed groups is unclear. These groups should be legally identified, argues Liesbeth Zegveld, in this award-winning scholarship. Of interest to academics, postgraduate students and professionals involved with armed conflict and international relations. more...
Refugee Protection in International Law
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 70.00Millions of people are today forced to flee persecution. This book examines key challenges the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees faces, on the basis of nine papers by eminent international refugee lawyers, which were then discussed at an expert roundtable meeting in 2001 as part of UNHCR's Global Consultations on International Protection. more...
International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 50.00How do international human rights and humanitarian law protect vulnerable individuals during peace and war? Provost analyses systemic similarities and differences between the two to examine how they are each built to achieve their similar goal. more...









