Throughout human history, scholars, statesmen and military leaders have attempted to define what constitutes the legitimate use of armed force by one community against another. Moreover, indeed if force is to be used, what normative guidelines should govern the conduct of warfare. Based upon the assumption that armed conflict is a human enterprise and therefore subject to human limitations, the Western 'just war tradition' represents an attempt to provide these guidelines.This volume: follows on from the earlier publication, "The Law of Armed Conflict". It brings together an international recognized team of scholars, and seeks to apply an interdisciplinary approach to analyse and assess the linkage between just war and the norms of behavior. It provides a valuable contribution to international law, international relations and national security studies.This volume explores the philosophic and societal foundations of the just war tradition, relates the principles of jus ad bellum to contemporary issues confronting the global community and explores the relationship between the principles of jus in bello and the various principles embodied in the customary law of armed conflict. It is ideal as a course reader for professionals and academics teaching law and international relations courses.
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Dr Howard M. Hensel has been a Professor on the faculty of the Air War College since 1986 and currently serves as the Director of Foundations of Warfighting Strategy.
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Throughout human history, there have been persistent efforts by philosophers, statesmen, and soldiers to place recognized and observable limits on the use of armed force as an instrument of policy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Throughout human history, there have been persistent efforts by philosophers, statesmen, and soldiers to place recognized and observable limits on the use of armed force as an instrument of policy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
customary international humanitarian law, partial award, advisory opinion, diplomatic conference, state responsibility, certain conventional weapons, theocentric natural law, dislocating function, unlimited justification, customary humanitarian law, crusading perspective, natural law proponents, attenuating function, persons hors, executing military operations, preventive warfare, ideological crusaders, customary nature, natural law advocates, civilian objects, natural law perspective, civilian immunity, theocentric approach, preventive military action, war proponents Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Additional Protocol, New York, Geneva Conventions, Cambridge University Press, United States, Security Council, Hague Convention, Hague Regulations, World War, Fourth Geneva Convention, United Nations, Oxford University Press, Statute of the International Criminal Court, Amended Protocol, Eternal Order, Supreme Court, Department of Defense, James Turner, Princeton University Press, Third Convention, Swiss Federal Political Department, George Sabine, United Kingdom, Trial Chamber, Divine Being Browse Sample Pages:
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