Book

Cluster munitions and international law : disarmament with a human face ?

Alexander Breitegger

London ; New York : Routledge, 2012

XIII, 271 p. : photogr., ill. ; 24 cm

978-0-415-66815-6

English

Bibliographie : p. 248-259. Index

This book offers a comprehensive argument for why pre-existing international law on cluster munitions was inadequate to deal with the full scope of humanitarian consequences associated with their use. The book undertakes an interdisciplinary legal analysis of restraints and prohibitions on the use of cluster munitions under international humanitarian law, human rights law, and international criminal law, as well as in relation to the recently adopted Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM). The book goes on to offer an in-depth substantive and procedural analysis of the negotiations which led to the 2008 CCM, in part based on the author’s experiences as an adviser to Cluster Munitions Coalition-Austria.