Legitimate targets?: social construction, international law and US bombing

"Based on an innovative theory of international law, Janina Dill's book investigates the effectiveness of international humanitarian law (IHL) in regulating the conduct of warfare. Through a comprehensive examination of the IHL defining a legitimate target of attack, Dill reveals a controv...

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Autor principal: Dill, Janina 1983- (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Print Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge Cambridge Univ. Press 2015
En: Cambridge studies in international relations (133)
Año: 2015
Disponibilidad en Tübingen:Disponible en Tübingen.
UB: 63 A 4726
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Palabras clave:
United States > Air Force > History
United States / Air Force > History
Air warfare > United States > History
Air warfare > History > United States
Air warfare (International law)
Humanitarian law
War (International law)
Air warfare
Political Science
International Relations
United States.
General
Luftangriff > Legalität > Kriegführung > Humanitäres Völkerrecht
USA > Luftangriff > Legalität > Kriegführung > Humanitäres Völkerrecht
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Sumario:"Based on an innovative theory of international law, Janina Dill's book investigates the effectiveness of international humanitarian law (IHL) in regulating the conduct of warfare. Through a comprehensive examination of the IHL defining a legitimate target of attack, Dill reveals a controversy among legal and military professionals about the 'logic' according to which belligerents ought to balance humanitarian and military imperatives: the logics of sufficiency or efficiency. Law prescribes the former, but increased recourse to IL in US air warfare has led to targeting in accordance with the logic of efficiency"--
"Based on an innovative theory of international law, Janina Dill's book investigates the effectiveness of international humanitarian law (IHL) in regulating the conduct of warfare. Through a comprehensive examination of the IHL defining a legitimate target of attack, Dill reveals a controversy among legal and military professionals about the 'logic' according to which belligerents ought to balance humanitarian and military imperatives: the logics of sufficiency or efficiency. Law prescribes the former, but increased recourse to IL in US air warfare has led to targeting in accordance with the logic of efficiency"--
Notas:Includes bibliogr. references and index
Bibliogr. S. 311 - 348
Descripción Física:XVIII, 358 S., 23 cm
ISBN:9781107056756
9781107694866