New battlefields, old laws
Subtitle: critical debates from the Hague Conventions to asymmetric warfare
By: edited by William C. Banks
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780231152341; 9780231152358; 9780231526562
Subjects: Terrorism; Law and legislation; Prevention; Asymmetric warfare; Humanitarian law
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Extraterritorial law enforcement or transnational counterterrorist military operations : the stakes of two legal models / Geoffrey S. Corn; title: Preventive detention of individuals engaged in transnational hostilities : do we need a fourth protocol additional to the 1949 Geneva Conventions? / Gregory Rose; title: "Jousting at windmills" : the laws of armed conflict in an age of terror : state actors and nonstate elements / David M. Crane and Daniel Reisner; title: Direct participation in hostilities : a concept broad enough for today's targeting decisions / Eric Talbot Jensen; title: Nonstate actors in armed conflicts : issues of distinction and reciprocity / Daphné Richemond-Barak; title: Children as direct participants in hostilities : new challenges for international humanitarian law and international criminal law / Hilly Moodrick-Even Khen; title: Private military contractors and changing norms for the laws of armed conflict / Renée de Nevers; title: The principle of proportionality under international humanitarian law and operation cast lead / Robert P. Barnidge Jr.; title: Chumanizing irregular warfare : framing compliance for nonstate armed groups at the intersection of security and legal analyses / Corri Zoli.