Preventing war in international law. Bibliography

Preventing war in international law. Bibliography

The most ambitious undertaking of international law has been to create rules to prevent war or to control its conduct for humanitarian reasons once it begins. After important historical precedents, such as the Lieber Codes, laws on force centered first on the Hague Conventions at the turn into the twentieth century and today on the four Geneva Conventions of 1949. A major effort for international society has been to identify aggressors and stop their use of force under the rubric of collective security, an ambition only sometimes successful. With collective security often unavailable, the UN improvised peacekeeping operations to halt conflicts so negotiations can settle the issues. Self-defense has often been claimed by states choosing to use force but becomes complicated when determining whether a state’s justification for self-defense is acceptable at forums such as the UN.

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Benvenisti, Eyal (2004) The International Law of Occupation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Bouchet-Saulnier, Francoise (2002) The Practical Guide to Humanitarian Law. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
Bowden, Brett, Charlesworth, Hilary, and Farrall, Jeremy (eds.) (2009) The Role of International Law in Rebuilding Societies after Conflict: Great Expectations. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Byers, Michael (2006) War Law: Understanding International Law and Armed Conflicts. New York: Grove Press.
Byron, Christine (2009) War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity in the Rome Statue of the International Criminal Court . New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Cassese, Antonio (2003) International Criminal Law . New York: Oxford University Press.
Doyle, Michael and Sambanis, Nicholas (2006) Making War and Building Peace: UN Peace Operations. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Engdahl, Ola and Wrange, Pà¥l (2008) Law at War: The Law as It Was and the Law as It Should Be. Boston, MA: Martinus Nijhoff.
Gray, Christine (2004) International Law and the Use of Force, 2nd edn. New York: Oxford University Press.
Karoubi, Mohammad Taghi (2004) Just or Unjust War? International Law and Unilateral Use of Force by States at the Turn of the 20th Century. Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
May, Larry (2008) Aggression and Crimes against Peace. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Nasu, Hitoshi (2009) International Law on Peacekeeping: A Study of Article 40 of the UN Charter. Boston, MA: Martinus Nijhoff.
O’Keefe, Roger (2007) The Protection of Cultural Property in Armed Conflict. New York: Cambridge University Press. UK Ministry of Defence (ed.) (2004) The Manual of the Law of Armed Conflict. New York: Oxford University Press.
Westra, Joel (2008) International Law and the Use of Armed Force: The UN Charter and the Major Powers. New York: Routledge.

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Customary International Law, Geneva Conventions, International Criminal Court, International Criminal Law.


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