What is war? an investigation in the wake of 9/11 / edited by Mary Ellen O'Connell.
| Other author | O'Connell, Mary Ellen, 1958- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, |
| Description | xxiv, 495 p. : ill. ; 2 5 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | International humanitarian law series ; 37 |
| Contents | Proposal to study the meaning of war in international law (May 2005) / ILA Committee on the Use of Force -- International law's changing terms : "war" becomes "armed conflict" / Elzbieta Mikos-Skuza -- The meaning of armed conflict and the Jus ad Bellum / Jutta Brunnee -- The concept of "armed conflict" in international armed conflict / Masahiko Asada -- The meaning of armed conflict : non-international armed conflict / Christine Gray -- Irregular forces and self-defense under the UN Charter / James Gathii -- United Nations peacekeeping and the meaning of armed conflict / Mary Ellen O'Connell and Ania Kritvus -- Silence of the laws? Conceptions of international relations and international law in Hobbes, Kant, and Locke / Michael Doyle and Geoffrey Carlson -- War, crime, and terrorism : distinctions and implications / John Mueller -- Meaning of war / General Sir Michael Rose -- What is war? / Jeremy Black -- History and war : the grim record of the past / Williamson Murray -- The meaning of war / Pamela Constable -- The semantics of 21st century warfare / James Gordon Meek -- The precariousness of rules / Thomas Grassey -- The meaning of war : an ethical analysis of sanctions and humanitarian intervention / Gerard Powers -- Uganda's "War in the North" : how clashing religious views created an armed conflict, how reconciling them may end it / Todd Whitmore -- The meaning of war / John Darby -- What's in a war? Insights from a conflict data program / Peter Wallensteen -- Initial report of the ILA Use of Force Committee on the definition of armed conflict (2008) -- Defining armed conflict, the work of the ILA Committee on the Use of Force (2005-2008) / Mary Ellen O'Connell -- Excerpts from a memo by the chair to the Committee on Submitting the Final Report (June 2010) -- The ILA Use of Force Committee's final report on the definition of armed conflict in international law (August 2010) -- Report on the adoption of the committee's final report on the definition of armed conflict (September 2010) / Mary Ellen O'Connell. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012014079 |
| ISBN | 9789004172340 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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