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The Law of War
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 44.95The third edition of Ingrid Detter's authoritative work explores the changing legal context of modern warfare in light of events over the last decade. The new edition covers post 9/11 events and the resulting changes in the ethos of war. It analyses the role of military companies sometimes authorised by States to act in war-like situations and... more...
Ethics and the Laws of War
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 135.00This book is an examination of the permissions, prohibitions and obligations found in just war theory, and the moral grounds for laws concerning war. Pronouncing an action or course of actions to be prohibited, permitted or obligatory by just war theory does not thereby establish the moral grounds of that prohibition, permission or obligation; nor... more...
Litigating War
Oxford University Press, USA 2013; US$ 224.99Litigating War offers an in-depth examination of the law and procedure of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission, which was tasked with deciding, through binding arbitration, claims for losses, damages, and injuries resulting from the 1998-2000 Eritrean-Ethiopian war. After providing an overview of the war, the authors describe how the Commission was... more...
Gender, National Security and Counter-terrorism
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 135.00In the name of fighting terrorism, countries have been invaded; wars have been waged; people have been detained, rendered and tortured; and campaigns for "hearts and minds" have been unleashed. Human rights analyses of the counter-terrorism measures implemented in the aftermath of 11 September 2001 have assumed that men suffer the most?both numerically... more...
Collateral Damage: Americans Noncombatant Immunity and Atrocity After World War II
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 28.95"Collateral damage" is a military term for the inadvertent casualties and destruction inflicted on civilians in the course of military operations. In Collateral Damage: Americans, Noncombatant Immunity, and Atrocity after World War II , Sahr Conway-Lanz chronicles the history of America's attempt to reconcile the ideal of sparing civilians with the... more...
Gulf War 1990-91 in International and English Law
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 260.00There is no doubt that international law was of major importance during the Gulf conflict of 1990-91. Military and other actions were repeatedly justified through reference to international law, and disputes about interpretation were frequent. This book provides a definitive legal analysis of the conflict, with reference both to international and... 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...
The Kosovo Tragedy
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 61.95The 1999 conflict in Kosovo is seen as being as significant for international affairs as the pulling down of the Berlin Wall, because of the centrality of human rights in the build-up, conduct and aftermath of the war. This volume is an attempt to explore this human rights tragedy. more...
Das Tötungsverbot im Krieg
Hamburger Edition HIS 2012; US$ 8.68Hauptbeschreibung Der Krieg hat seine Erscheinungsformen geändert. Gestützt auf Resolutionen des UN-Sicherheitsrats, werden Staatsführungen beseitigt und Gesellschaften umgestaltet - die Welt soll friedlicher gemacht werden. Doch in den betroffenen Bevölkerungen wachsen Wut und Verbitterung. Die bei Kampfhandlungen getöteten unbeteiligten Zivilisten... more...
The Costs of War
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 44.95In The Costs of War, Richard Falk brings together some of his recent essays, published and unpublished, examining the impact that the Iraq War has had and will have on international law, human rights, and democracy. A new introduction provides an overview as well as a sense of the current context and reflects on the internal prospects for Iraq... more...









