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International Conflict and Security Law
This incisive book provides an extensive analysis of the robust array of international law applicable across the spectrum of international conflict and security. With a particular focus on new and emerging technologies and domains such as cyber and outer space, Laurie Blank illustrates how international conflict and security law applies to 21st century challenges
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This incisive book provides an extensive analysis of the robust array of international law applicable across the spectrum of international conflict and security. With a particular focus on new and emerging technologies and domains such as cyber and outer space, Laurie Blank illustrates how international conflict and security law applies to 21st century challenges.
From conflict prevention to the use of force, the law of armed conflict to transitional justice, this book offers an in-depth examination of how these legal frameworks address the most fundamental questions for security at the human, national and international levels: how to prevent and reduce escalation of conflict; how to protect States, their territory and their core national interests; how to protect individuals and their rights; how to maintain and restore international peace; how to resolve conflicts; and how to promote justice and reconciliation after conflict. Overall, the book creates a multifaceted and insightful picture of how the international legal system functions as a comprehensive – if still sometimes fractured – framework.
International Conflict and Security Law will be essential reading for both graduate and undergraduate students studying security policy, international law, conflict resolution and armed conflict. It will also provide a well-rounded exploration of the field as a whole for policy makers, practitioners and academics.
From conflict prevention to the use of force, the law of armed conflict to transitional justice, this book offers an in-depth examination of how these legal frameworks address the most fundamental questions for security at the human, national and international levels: how to prevent and reduce escalation of conflict; how to protect States, their territory and their core national interests; how to protect individuals and their rights; how to maintain and restore international peace; how to resolve conflicts; and how to promote justice and reconciliation after conflict. Overall, the book creates a multifaceted and insightful picture of how the international legal system functions as a comprehensive – if still sometimes fractured – framework.
International Conflict and Security Law will be essential reading for both graduate and undergraduate students studying security policy, international law, conflict resolution and armed conflict. It will also provide a well-rounded exploration of the field as a whole for policy makers, practitioners and academics.
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‘International Conflict and Security Law is an eminently readable text. This is enhanced by its inclusion of a feature whereby key contemporary controversies or debates are highlighted by their incorporation within boxes, drawing out the real-life relevance of many of the issues explored within the book. The book is admittedly brief in its treatment of the issues which it addresses. This is of necessity given the vast body of law it attempts to touch upon. As a result it serves as a very useful introduction to the relevant legal frameworks and debates for those, principally students, new to the subject before moving on to more comprehensive focused works which tackle more specifically the applicable legal regimes individually.’
– Gary Wilson, Liverpool Law Review
‘Professor Blank has masterfully and concisely condensed the complex subject of international conflict and security law into a delightful and informative book that reads clearly enough to be accessible to the general public but is also sufficiently detailed and academic to serve as a textbook for the most avid student. Absolutely superb!’
– Eric Talbot Jensen, Brigham Young University, US
– Gary Wilson, Liverpool Law Review
‘Professor Blank has masterfully and concisely condensed the complex subject of international conflict and security law into a delightful and informative book that reads clearly enough to be accessible to the general public but is also sufficiently detailed and academic to serve as a textbook for the most avid student. Absolutely superb!’
– Eric Talbot Jensen, Brigham Young University, US
Contents
Contents: Introduction: conflict, security and international law PART I CONFLICT PREVENTION AND COLLECTIVE SECURITY 1. Collective security and the United Nations 2. Disarmament, non-proliferation, and arms control 3. Counterterrorism, emergencies, and human rights PART II JUS AD BELLUM AND THE RESORT TO FORCE 4. Jus ad bellum: history and framework 5. Self-defense: law and practice 6. Humanitarian intervention? PART III MILITARY OPERATIONS AND THE LAW OF ARMED CONFLICT 7. Law of armed conflict: purposes and principles 8. Classification of conflict 9. Status and protection of persons 10. Conduct of hostilities and detention PART IV POST-CONFLICT: ACCOUNTABILITY AND
TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE 11 International criminal accountability 12 Transitional justice Index
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TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE 11 International criminal accountability 12 Transitional justice Index
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