Rethinking the Law of Armed Conflict in an Age of Terrorism (eBook)

Amichai Cohen, Christopher Ford (Herausgeber)

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2011
332 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-6654-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Ten years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2011, Rethinking the Law of Armed Conflict in an Age of Terrorism, edited by Christopher Ford and Amichai Cohen, brings together a range of interdisciplinary experts to examine the problematic encounter between international law and challenges presented by conflicts between developed states and nonstate actors, such as international terrorist groups. Through examinations of the counter-terrorist experiences of the United States, Israel, and Colombiacoupled with legal and historical analyses of trends in international humanitarian lawthe authors place post-9/11 practice in the context of the international legal community's broader struggle over the substantive content of international rules constraining state behavior in irregular wars and explore trends in the development of these rules. From the beginning of international efforts to rewrite the laws of armed conflict in the 1970s, the legal rules to govern irregular conflicts of the ';state-on-nonstate' variety have been contested terrain. Particularly in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, policymakers, lawyers, and scholars have debated the merits, relevance, and applicability of what are said to be competing ';war' and ';law enforcement' paradigms of legal constraintand even the degree to which international law can be said to apply to counter-terrorist conflicts at all. Ford & Cohen's volume puts such debates in historical and analytical context, and offers readers an insight into where the law has been headed in the fraught years since September 2001. The contributors provide the reader with differing perspectives upon these questions, but together their analyses make clear that law-governed restraint remains a cardinal value in counter-terrorist war, even as the law stands revealed as being much more contested and indeterminate than many accounts would have it. Rethinking the Law of Armed Conflict in an Age of Terrorism provides an important conceptual framework through which to view the development of the law as the policy and legal communities move into the second decade of the ';global war on terrorism.'

Autor

Editors:Christopher Ford is senior fellow and Director of the Center for Technology and Global Security at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C.Amichai Cohen is senior lecturer with the Faculty of Law at Ono Academic College in Israel.Contributors:Amichai CohenSteven DavidChristopher FordJeremy RabkinJuan Carlos Gómez RamirezElizabeth SamsonYuval ShanyJohn H. ShenefieldAriel Zemach

Inhalt

Introduction- Rethinking Armed Conflict in an Age of Terrorismby Christopher A. FordChapter One- The Law that Turned Against Its Drafters: Guerrilla-Combatants and the First Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventionsby Ariel ZemachChapter Two- The Strange Pretensions of Contemporary Humanitarian Lawby Jeremy RabkinChapter Three- Targeted Killing: The Israeli Experienceby Steven DavidChapter Four- Guarding the Guards in the War on Terrorismby Yuval ShanyChapter Five- The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Puzzle: We Know How We Got Here—Now, What Do We Do?by John H. ShenefieldChapter Six- Terrorism-related Adjudicationby Amichai CohenChapter Seven- Necessity, Proportionality, and the Distinction in Non-Traditional Conflicts: The Unfortunate Case Study of the Goldstone Reportby Elizabeth SamsonChapter Eight- Confronting Terrorism: Human Rights Law, or the Law of War?by Juan Carlos Gomez RamirezChapter Nine- Living in the 'New Normal': Modern War, Nonstate Actors, and the Future of Lawby Christopher A. FordChapter Ten- Some Conclusions and Thoughts for the Futureby Amichai CohenAbout the AuthorsIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.12.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Internationales Privatrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Schlagworte: American Government, Policy and Law • globalization and security studies • International Politics • International Studies • Peace & Conflict Studies • Political Science • US Foreign Policy
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-6654-9 / 0739166549
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-6654-3 / 9780739166543