Legitimate Targets?
Social Construction, International Law and US Bombing
Edición de la obra Legitimate Targets?
| Autor | Janina Dill |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Cambridge University Press |
| Fecha de publicación | 2014 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| ISBN-13 | 9781316121467 |
| Número de Cutter | D578l |
"Based on an innovative theory of international law, Janina Dill's book investigates the effectiveness of international humanitarian law (IHL) in regulating the conduct of warfare. Through a comprehensive examination of the IHL defining a legitimate target of attack, Dill reveals a controversy among legal and military professionals about the 'logic' according to which belligerents ought to balance humanitarian and military imperatives: the logics of sufficiency or efficiency. Law prescribes the former, but increased recourse to IL in US air warfare has led to targeting in accordance with the logic of efficiency"--