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Preparing for War - The Making of the Geneva Conventions (Hardcover)
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Preparing for War - The Making of the Geneva Conventions (Hardcover)
Series: The History and Theory of International Law
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The 1949 Geneva Conventions are the most important rules for armed
conflict ever formulated. To this day they continue to shape
contemporary debates about regulating warfare, but their history is
often misunderstood. For most observers, the drafters behind these
treaties were primarily motivated by liberal humanitarian
principles and the shock of the atrocities of the Second World War.
This book tells a different story, showing how the final text of
the Conventions, far from being an unabashedly liberal blueprint,
was the outcome of a series of political struggles among the
drafters. It also concerned a great deal more than simply
recognizing the shortcomings of international law revealed by the
experience of war. To understand the politics and ideas of the
Conventions' drafters is to see them less as passive characters
responding to past events than as active protagonists trying to
shape the future of warfare. In many different ways, they tried to
define the contours of future battlefields by deciding who deserved
protection and what counted as a legitimate target. Outlawing
illegal conduct in wartime did as much to outline the concept of
humanized war as to establish the legality of waging war itself.
Through extensive archival research and critical legal
methodologies, Preparing for War establishes that although they did
not seek war, the Conventions' drafters prepared for it by means of
weaving a new legal safety net in the event that their worst fear
should materialize, a spectre still haunting us today.
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