International Humanitarian Law

The international law governing armed conflict is at a crossroads, as the formal framework of laws designed to control the exercise of self-defense...

The 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide Convention) has a special standing in international law ...

This volume brings together the most important writing on torture and the 'war on terror by one of the leading US voices in the torture debate. Phi...

The United Nations estimates that four billion people worldwide live outside the protection of the law. These people can be driven from their land,...

Policymakers, legislators, scientists, thinkers, military strategists, academics, and all those interested in understanding the future want to know...

For decades a bitter civil war between the Colombia government and armed insurgent groups tore apart Colombian society. After protracted negotiatio...

The impact of violence and conflict on refugee status determination and international protection is a key developing field. Given the contemporary ...

The application and interpretation of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their two Additional Protocols of 1977 have developed significantly i...

Rogue States is a collection of essays written by Chomsky in the late 1990s, all of which subvert the United States foreign policy discourse and th...

Famine is an age-old scourge that almost disappeared in our lifetime. Between 2000 and 2011 there were no famines and deaths in humanitarian emerge...

How relevant is the concept of war today? This book examines how notions about war continue to influence how we conceive rights and obligations in ...

How relevant is the concept of war today? This book examines how notions about war continue to influence how we conceive rights and obligations in ...

Anyone interested in the future of autocracy should buy it Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Demoracy **Short...

Anyone interested in the future of autocracy should buy it Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Demoracy **Winne...

Why the international community should have intervened in Rwanda. The Rwandan Genocide was a genocidal mass slaughter of ethnic Tutsis by ethnic Hu...

Although the relationship between international human rights law and the law of armed conflict has been the subject of significant recent academic ...

In examining various aspects of the provision of security, the Small Arms Survey 2011 considers the growth of the private security industry and its...

Ideas of collective responsibility challenge the doctrine of individual responsibility that is the dominant paradigm in law and liberal political t...

The war of June 1967 between Israel and Arab states was widely perceived as being forced on Israel to prevent the annihilation of its people by Ara...

Genocide is one of the most heinous abuses of human rights imaginable, yet reaction to it by European governments in the post-Cold War world has be...

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the broad spectrum of human rights issues and violations as they are experienced by women and se...

What does it mean to say that international humanitarian law (IHL) strikes a realistic and meaningful balance between military necessity and humani...

Private military and security companies (PMSCs) have been used in every peace operation since 1990, and reliance on them is increasing at a time wh...

Since the first edition of this book was published in 2010, United Nations peace operations have evolved significantly. In the Democratic Republic ...

With more than 158,000 treaties and some 125 judicial organisations, international law has become an inescapable factor in world politics since the...

In 2015, the United States Department of Defense published its long-awaited Law of War Manual making a significant statement on the position of the...

Over the past 150 years, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has been one of the main drivers of progressive development in interna...

The Small Arms Survey 2012 seeks to increase our scrutiny of what is changing, and not changing, in relation to armed violence and small arms proli...

The United Nations Arms Trade Treaty became binding international law in late 2014, and although the text of the treaty is a relatively concise fra...

The 'Legal Pluriverse' Surrounding Multinational Military Operations conceptualizes and examines the Pluriverse: the multiplicity of rules that app...

'Human trafficking' brings to mind gangsters forcing people, often women and girls, to engage in dangerous activities against their will, under thr...

Cultural rights promote cultural and scientific creativity. Transformative and empowering, they also enable the pursuit of knowledge and understand...

War, Aggression and Self-Defence is an indispensable guide to international legal issues of war and peace, the crime of aggression, self-defence an...

Diplomacy is used primarily to advance the interests of a state beyond its borders, within a set of global norms intended to assure a degree of int...

The second edition of this well received handbook provides a comprehensive overview and annotated commentary of those areas of international law mo...

In recent years, transitional justice has become increasingly international in its scope. Due to ongoing animosities, lack of political will, and t...

Against the backdrop of the British-American law- and war-making of the first decade of the millennium, Fighting Monsters considers how the way we ...

With the arrival in Europe of over a million refugees and asylum seekers in 2015, a sense of panic began to spread within the continent and beyond....