Book

International law and the war with Islamic state : challenges for jus ad bellum and jus in bello

Saeed Bagheri

Oxford ; London ; New York ; New Dehli ; Sydney : Hart, 2021

XVIII, 186 p. ; 24 cm

978-1-5099-5051-5

English

Bibliography : p. 151-171. Index

Armed non-state actors (ANSAs) often have economic aims that international law needs to respond to. This book looks at the aim of Islamic State to create an effective government, with an economically independent regime, which focused on key oilfields in Syria and Iraq. Having addressed Islamic State's quest for energy resources in Iraq and Syria, the book explores the lawfulness of the war with Islamic State from a variety of legal aspects. It has been attempted to make inroads into the most controversial aspects of contradictions in the application of jus ad bellum and jus in bello, particularly when discussing the use of extraterritorial armed force against ANSAs, and the obligation to protect civilian objects, including the natural environment. The question is whether the targeting of energy resources should be regarded as a violation of the laws of armed conflict, even though the war with Islamic State was classified as a non-international armed conflict.