Banks New Battlefields/Old Laws

Critical Debates on Asymmetric Warfare
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-231-52656-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Banks, William

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Terrorismus, Religiöser Fundamentalismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Revolutionäre Gruppen und Bewegungen, Bewaffnete Konflikte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures and Tables
Introduction: Toward an Adaptive International Humanitarian Law: New Norms
for New Battlefields, by William C. Banks
Critical Debate I: Threshold Issues in Defining Twenty-first-Century Armed Conflicts
1. Extraterritorial Law Enforcement or Transnational Counterterrorist
Military Operations: The Stakes of Two Legal Models, by Geoffrey S. Corn
2. Preventive Detention of Individuals Engaged in Transnational Hostilities: Do We Need a Fourth Protocol Additional to the 1949 Geneva Conventions?, by Gregory Rose
Critical Debate II: Status and Liabilities of Nonstate Actors Engaged in Hostilities
3."Jousting at Windmills": The Laws of Armed Conflict in an Age of Terror—State Actors and Nonstate Elements, by David M. Crane and Daniel Reisner
4. Direct Participation in Hostilities: A Concept Broad Enough for Today's Targeting Decisions, by Eric Talbot Jensen
5. Nonstate Actors in Armed Conflicts: Issues of Distinction and Reciprocity, by Daphné Richemond-Barak
Critical Debate III: Changing Twenty-first-Century Battlefields and Armed Forces
6. Children as Direct Participants in Hostilities: New Challenges for International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law, by Hilly Moodrick-Even Khen
7. Private Military Contractors and Changing Norms for the Laws of Armed Conflict, by Renée de Nevers
Critical Debate IV: Military Necessity and Humanitarian Priorities in International Humanitarian Law: Productive Tension or Irreconcilable Differences?
8. The Principle of Proportionality Under International Humanitarian Law and Operation Cast Lead, by Robert P. Barnidge Jr.
9. Humanizing Irregular Warfare: Framing Compliance for Nonstate Armed Groups at the Intersection of Security and Legal Analyses, by Corri Zoli
Notes
Contributor Bios
Index

Über Autor(innen)

William C. Banks is professor of public administration at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. He is also Board of Advisors Distinguished Professor at the university's College of Law and director of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT). Since 1987, Banks has helped draw the parameters of national security law, coauthoring two leading texts in the field: National Security Law and Counterterrorism Law.