Overview
- Author combines extensive military career with academic rigour
- Takes numerous vital issues currently confronting the law of armed conflict and presents the author's personal assessment of each
- Written in a clear and accessible style
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Topics as diverse as the evolving spectrum of conflict, innovations in weaponry, automated and autonomous attack, the depersonalisation of warfare, detention operations, the influence of modern media and the application of human rights law to the conduct of hostilities are examined in this book to see to what extent existing legal norms are challenged. The book takes each topic in turn, explains relevant provisions of contemporary law and analyses exactly where the legal problem lies. The analysis then develops the theme, examining for example the implications of current rules as to deception operations for certain applications of cyber warfare. The text is written in an accessible style, and demonstrates the continuing relevance of established rules and the importance of compliance with them. Useful for academics, military, governments, ministries of defence, ministries of foreign affairs, libraries, diplomats, think tanks, policy units, NGOs, and all others with an interest in law of armed conflict issues such as journalists and students.
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“Boothby writes in an engaging and accessible style, providing a rigorous, scholarly analysis of the issues, while still presenting the material in a clear and comprehensible manner – for those among us who may not understand the technical minutiae of autonomous weaponry or cyber warfare. … Boothby has provided us with a dynamic and engaging text that seeks to highlight some of the key issues that will no doubt form the basis of much debate for decades to come.” (Emily Crawford, British Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 84, January, 2015)Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Conflict Law
Book Subtitle: The Influence of New Weapons Technology, Human Rights and Emerging Actors
Authors: William H. Boothby
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-002-2
Publisher: T.M.C. Asser Press The Hague
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: T.M.C. Asser Press and the author 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-6265-001-5Published: 20 March 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6265-002-2Published: 08 July 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 464
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict, Human Rights, Public International Law, International Relations