International Humanitarian Law

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....