Legitimate targets? : social construction, international law and US bombing /
"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 controv...
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Cambridge University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
Publication Dates: | 2015. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Cambridge studies in international relations ;
133 |
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Summary: |
"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"-- |
Carrier Form: | xviii, 358 pages ; 23 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-348) and index. |
ISBN: |
9781107056756 (hardback) : 1107056756 (hardback) 9781107694866 (paperback) 1107694868 (paperback) |
Index Number: | KZ6695 |
CLC: | D995 |
Call Number: | D995/D578 |
Contents: | 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. |