Book

Looting and rape in wartime : law and change in international relations

Tuba Inal

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013

269 p. : tabl. ; 24 cm

978-0-8122-4476-2

English

Bibliographie : p. 247-264. Index

Women were historically treated in wartime as property. Yet in the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, prohibitions against pillaging property did not extend to the female body. There is a gap of nearly a hundred years between those early prohibitions of pillage and the prohibition of rape finally enacted in the Rome Statute of 1998. "Looting and Rape in Wartime" addresses the development of these two separate "prohibition regimes," exploring why states make and agree to laws that determine the way war is conducted, and what role gender plays in this process. In examining the historical and ideological context of how these two regimes evolved, Looting and Rape in Wartime provides vital perspective on the forces that block or bring about change in international relations.