The Conduct of Hostilities under the Law of International Armed Conflict

Yoram Dinstein (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2004
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-83436-0 (ISBN)

Infos

A companion volume to the author's seminal textbook War, Aggression and Self-Defence, Third Edition, Cambridge (2001), this book focuses on issues arising in the course of hostilities between States, with an emphasis on the most recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The main themes considered by Yoram Dinstein are lawful and unlawful combatants, war crimes, including command responsibility and defences, prohibited weapons, the distinction between combatants and civilians, legitimate military objectives, and the protection of the environment and cultural property. Numerous specific topics that have attracted much interest in recent hostilities are addressed, such as human shields, feigned surrenders, collateral damage and proportionality, belligerent reprisals and weapons of mass destruction.

Autor

Stockton Professor of International Law, US Naval War College.

Inhalt

Acknowledgement; Introduction; Table of cases; Table of treaties; List of abbreviations; Part I. The General Framework: 1. The sources; 2. The semantics; 3. Inter-state armed conflicts; 4. Military necessity and humanitarian considerations; 5. Humanitarian law and human rights; 6. Dissemination; Part II. Lawful Combatancy: 7. Combatants and civilians; 8. Lawful and unlawful combatants; 9. The entitlement to prisoners of war status under customary international law; 10. The Legal Position under Protocol I of 1977; 11. A case study: the war in Afghanistan; 12. Mercenaries; 13. Armed merchant vessels; Part III. Prohibited Weapons: 14. Introduction; 15. The principle prohibiting unnecessary suffering; 16. Explicit prohibitions and restrictions of certain weapons; 17. The status of nuclear weapons; 18. Development of new weapons; Part IV. Legitimate Military Objectives: 19. The principle of distinction and military objectives; 20. The definition of military objectives by nature, location, purpose and use; 21. General problems relating to the scope of military objectives; 22. Defended and undefended localities in land warfare; 23. Special problems relating to sea warfare; 24. Special problems relating to air warfare; Part V. The Protection of Civilians and Civilian Objects from Attack: 25. Definitions; 26. Direct attacks against civilians; 27. Indiscriminate attacks; 28. The principle of proportionality; 29. Legitimate collateral damage; 30. Precautions in attack; 31. Cessation of protection and 'human shields'; 32. Starvation of civilians; Part VI. Measures of Special Protection: 33. Persons entitled to special protection; 34. Cultural property and places of worship; 35. Medical units; 36. Works and installations containing dangerous forces; Part VII. Protection of the Environment: 37. Introduction; 38. The international legal texts; 39. The dissimilarities between the ENMOD convention and protocol I; 40. A case study: setting fire to oil wells in the Gulf War; 41. Conclusion; Part VIII. Other Methods and Means of Warfare: 42. Perfidy and ruses of war; 43. Espionage; 44. Seizure and destruction of enemy property; 45. Belligerent reprisals; 46. War crimes, command responsibility and defences; 47. The definition of war crimes; 48. The Distinction between war criminals and unlawful combatants; 49. Command responsibility; 50. Admissible and inadmissible defences; General conclusions; Index.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.2.2004
• Verlagsort: Cambridge
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 158 x 236 mm
• Gewicht: 592 g
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• ISBN-10: 0-521-83436-8 / 0521834368
• ISBN-13: 978-0-521-83436-0 / 9780521834360
• Zustand: Neuware