Legitimate Targets?
Janina Dill · 2014
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"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"--
Book details
- Year
- 2014
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Editions
- 5
- Pages
- 385
- ISBN
- 9781107694866
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