Research Catalog

Title

War and war crimes : the military, legitimacy, and success in armed conflict / James Gow.

Author

Gow, James.

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012.

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Details

Description

ix, 211 pages; 23 cm

Summary

The laws of war have always been concerned with issues of necessity and proportionality, but how are these principles applied in modern warfare? What are the pressures on practitioners where an increasing emphasis on legality is the norm? Where do such boundaries lie in the contexts, means, and methods of contemporary war? What is wrong, or right, in the view of military-political practitioners, in how those concepts relate to today's means and methods of war? These are among the issues addressed in this analysis of war and war crimes.

Subject

• International War Crimes Tribunal
• International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991
• International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
• Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (1998 July 17)
• 1991-1995
• War crimes
• War
• Strategy
• Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 > Atrocities
• War Crimes
• Armed Conflicts
• 89.76 polemology
• Atrocities
• Krieg
• Kriegsverbrechen
• Bewaffneter Konflikt
• Kriegsverbrechen
• Kriegsrecht

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Strategy, war, and law -- Strategy and the multidimensional trinity -- Prosecuting war crimes -- Strategy and justice -- Conduct and cases -- War and war crimes.

ISBN

• 9780231701358
• 0231701357

LCCN

2012039148

OCLC

• ocn635463769
• 635463769
• SCSB-1592477

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library