International law and new wars /: Christine Chinkin, Mary Kaldor.

Name: International law and new wars / Christine Chinkin, Mary Kaldor.
ISBN: 9781316759868

Chinkin, Christine,; Kaldor, Mary,

International law and new wars / Christine Chinkin, Mary Kaldor.

Chinkin, Christine, author.; Kaldor, Mary, author.

2017

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Chinkin, Christine, author.

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International law and new wars / Christine Chinkin, Mary Kaldor.

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Kaldor, Mary, author.

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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

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1 online resource (xviii, 592 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

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Sovereignty and the authority to use force
The relevance of international law
Self-defence as a justification for war : the geo-political and war on terror models
The humanitarian model for recourse to force
How force is used
Weapons
'Post-conflict' and governance
The liberal peace : peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding
Justice and accountability
Second generation human security
What does human security require of international law?

Summary

International Law and New Wars examines how international law fails to address the contemporary experience of what are known as 'new wars' - instances of armed conflict and violence in places such as Syria, Ukraine, Libya, Mali, the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan. International law, largely constructed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, rests to a great extent on the outmoded concept of war drawn from European experience - inter-state clashes involving battles between regular and identifiable armed forces. The book shows how different approaches are associated with different interpretations of international law, and, in some cases, this has dangerously weakened the legal restraints on war established after 1945. It puts forward a practical case for what it defines as second generation human security and the implications this carries for international law.

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English