International Law and New Wars
Journal: Cambridge University Press eBooks
Year: 2017

International Law and New Wars examines how international law fails to address the contemporary experience of what are known as &amp;apos;new wars&amp;apos; - 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 bat