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Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2012

1 online resource (xxiv, 495 p.) : ill

ISBN 9789047425816 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9789004172340 (hardback alk. paper)

aInternational humanitarian law series,$$x1389-6776 ;$$vv. 37

Includes bibliographical references and index

The meaning of war / Pamela Constable -- The semantics of 21st century warfare / James Gordon Meek -- The precariousness of rules / Thomas Grassey -- The meaning of war : an ethical analysis of sanctions and humanitarian intervention / Gerard Powers -- Uganda’s "War in the North" : how clashing religious views created an armed conflict, how reconciling them may end it / Todd Whitmore -- The meaning of war / John Darby -- What’s in a war? Insights from a conflict data program / Peter Wallensteen -- Initial report of the ILA Use of Force Committee on the definition of armed conflict (2008) -- Defining armed conflict, the work of the ILA Committee on the Use of Force (2005-2008) / Mary Ellen O’Connell -- Excerpts from a memo by the chair to the Committee on Submitting the Final Report (June 2010) -- The ILA Use of Force Committee’s final report on the definition of armed conflict in international law (August 2010) ---

Report on the adoption of the committee’s final report on the definition of armed conflict (September 2010) / Mary Ellen O’Connell.

Proposal to study the meaning of war in international law (May 2005) / ILA Committee on the Use of Force -- International law’s changing terms : "war" becomes "armed conflict" / Elzbieta Mikos-Skuza -- The meaning of armed conflict and the Jus ad Bellum / Jutta Brunnee -- The concept of "armed conflict" in international armed conflict / Masahiko Asada -- The meaning of armed conflict : non-international armed conflict / Christine Gray -- Irregular forces and self-defense under the UN Charter / James Gathii -- United Nations peacekeeping and the meaning of armed conflict / Mary Ellen O’Connell and Ania Kritvus -- Silence of the laws? Conceptions of international relations and international law in Hobbes, Kant, and Locke / Michael Doyle and Geoffrey Carlson -- War, crime, and terrorism : distinctions and implications / John Mueller -- Meaning of war / General Sir Michael Rose -- What is war? / Jeremy Black -- History and war : the grim record of the past / Williamson Murray ---

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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