Book

Counterinsurgency law : new directions in asymmetric warfare

William Banks

Oxford [etc.] : Oxford University Press, 2013

XXII, 287 p. : diagr., graph., tabl. ; 24 cm

978-0-19-994144-5

English

Index

Exploration from an interdisciplinary legal and policy perspective the multiple challenges that counterinsurgency operations pose today to the rule of law - international, humanitarian, human rights, criminal, and domestic. Addressing the considerable challenges for the future of armed conflict, each contributor in the book explores the premise that in COIN operations, international humanitarian law, human rights law, international law more generally, and domestic national security laws do not provide adequate legal and policy coverage and guidance for multiple reasons, many of which are explored in this book. A second shared premise is that these problems are not only challenges for the law in post-9/11 security environments-but matters of policy with implications for the international community and for global security more generally.

• 2013, Chapter, Valor's vices : against a state duty to risk forces in armed conflict / Peter Margulies
• 2013, Chapter, Terrorism and the laws of multidimensional warfare / Boaz Ganor
• 2013, Chapter, The Human Rights Council and the convergence of humanitarian law and human rights law / Daphné Richemond-Barak
• 2013, Chapter, The Gaza freedom flotilla : politicizing maritime law in asymmetric contexts / Corri Zoli