Legitimate Targets?
Social Construction, International Law and US Bombing
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Word Count
96,500 words, Guess
Page Count
386 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781107056756
- ISBN-101107056756
- Better World Books9781107056756
- Open LibraryOL29222918M
Classifications
- LCCKZ6695 .D55 2015
Description
"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"--
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