books about human rights in armed conflict

Law Courses Open to Graduate & Undergraduate Students.It reconstructs the processes by which political and legal theorists built the laws' distinctive vocabularies and legitimized some of their broadest permissions, and it situates these processes within the broader intellectual project that from early modernity spelled out the nature, function, and powers of state sovereignty. The Laws of War in International Thought examines the intellectual history of the laws of war before their codification. It assigns privileges to states far beyond what they are allowed to do in peacetime, and it mandates certain protections for non-combatants, which can often be defeated by appeals to military necessity or advantage.

The Law of Armed Conflict is usually understood to be a regime of exception that applies only during armed conflict and regulates hostilities among enemies. New Book: The Laws of War in International Thought He earned his PhD in political science from Columbia University. Previously he was professor of political science at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, and postdoctoral fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and at Yale University. His research interests include the history of international thought, political theory, humanitarianism, transitional justice, and human rights. Pablo Kalmanovitz is Research Professor in the International Studies Division at CIDE ( Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas) in Mexico City. Saeks Public Interest Residency Program.

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Books about human rights in armed conflict