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...