Legitimate targets? : social construction, international law and US bombing / Janina Dill
- Bib ID:
- 6811611
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Dill, Janina, 1983-, author
- Description:
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- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015
- xviii, 358 pages ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781107056756
- 1107056756
- 9781107694866
- 1107694868
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in international relations ; 133.
- Summary:
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"Based on an innovative theory of international law, Janina Dill's book investigates the effectiveness of international humanitarian law (IHL) in regulating the conduct of warfare. Through a comprehensive examination of the IHL defining a legitimate target of attack, Dill reveals a controversy among legal and military professionals about the 'logic' according to which belligerents ought to balance humanitarian and military imperatives: the logics of sufficiency or efficiency. Law prescribes the former, but increased recourse to IL in US air warfare has led to targeting in accordance with the logic of efficiency"--
- Full contents:
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- The challenge
- The theory
- Positive law
- Customary law
- The rise of international law in US air warfare
- The changing logic of US air warfare
- The behavioural relevance of international law in US air warfare
- The lack of normative success of international law in US air warfare
- The impossibility of normative success for international law in war.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-348) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 2015
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