What is war?
Subtitle: an investigation in the wake of 9/11
By: edited by Mary Ellen O'Connell
Series: International humanitarian law series
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 526
ISBN-13: 9789004172340
Subjects: War (Philosophy); Politics and war; War (International law); Terrorism; Law and legislation; Prevention
Description: xxiv, 495 p. : 2 5 cm
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: defining armed conflict in the decade after 9/11 / Mary Ellen O'Connell; title: Proposal to study the meaning of war in international law / ILA Committee on the Use of Force; title: International law's changing terms: "war" becomes "armed conflict" / Elzbieta Mikos-Skuza; title: The meaning of armed conflict and the Jus ad Bellum / Jutta Brunnee; title: The concept of "armed conflict" in international armed conflict / Masahiko Asada; title: The meaning of armed conflict; title: -non-international armed conflict / Christine Gray; title: Irregular forces and self-defense under the UN Charter / James Gathii; title: United Nations peacekeeping and the meaning of armed conflict / Mary Ellen O'Connell and Ania Kritvus; title: Silence of the laws?; title: conceptions of international relations and international law in Hobbes, Kant, and Locke / Michael Doyle and Geoffrey Carlson; title: War, crime, and terrorism: distinctions and implications / John Mueller; title: Meaning of war / General Sir Michael Rose; title: What is war? / Jeremy Black; title: History and war; title: the grim record of the past / Williamson Murray; title: The meaning of war / Pamela Constable; title: The semantics of 21st century warfare / James Gordon Meek; title: The precariousness of rules / Thomas Grassey; title: The meaning of war: an ethical analysis of sanctions and humanitarian intervention / Gerard Powers; title: Uganda's "War in the North"; title: -how clashing religious views created an armed conflict, how reconciling them may end it / Todd Whitmore; title: The meaning of war / John Darby; title: What's in a war?; title: insights from a conflict data program / Peter Wallensteen; title: Initial report of the ILA Use of Force Committee on the definition of armed conflict; title: Defining armed conflict, the work of the ILA Committee on the Use of Force (2005-2008) / Mary Ellen O'Connell; title: Excerpts from a memo by the chair to the Committee on Submitting the Final Report (June 2010); title: The ILA Use of Force Committee's final report on the definition of armed conflict in international law (August 2010); title: Report on the adoption of the committee's final report on the definition of armed conflict; title: (September 2010) / Mary Ellen O'Connell.