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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      19 May 2017
      19 April 2017
      ISBN:
      9781316759868
      9781107171213
      9781316622094
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316759868
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.99kg, 608 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.86kg, 608 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Public International Law, Law, Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations
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    Public International Law, Law, Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations
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    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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    'Chinkin and Kaldor understand deeply and explain clearly the legal issues and distortions involved in justifications for international interventions into 'new wars' and their aftermath. Their human security lens provides new creative focus to a burgeoning literature.'

    Antonia Chayes - Tufts University, Massachusetts

    'An inspired collaboration between two leading world experts on the linkages between international law and war. International Law and New Wars is an outstanding contribution to scholarship, being the most comprehensive and authoritative treatment of this most important of all current global challenges. It seems to be the most significant book on international law published in the last decade.'

    Richard Falk - University of California, Santa Barbara

    'International Law and New Wars is a magisterial achievement of breathtaking power and originality. Chinkin and Kaldor lay out a realistic and achievable blueprint for peace and security in the twnety-first century.'

    Anne-Marie Slaughter - President and CEO, New America

    'Christine Chinkin and Mary Kaldor’s International Law and New Wars should be on the reading list of every service as well as that of the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and it should be taught in every war college. … [T]his is a book that should be read again and again. It is an energizing vehicle for facilitating vigorous discussion.'

    Cornelia Weiss Source: Parameters

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    Contents
    • 4 - Self-Defence as a Justification for War: The Geo-Political and War on Terror Models
      pp 129-174
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