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Lawfare - Law as a Weapon of War (Hardcover)
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Lawfare - Law as a Weapon of War (Hardcover)
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International military interventions can be extremely costly in
terms of monetary resources, logistical challenges, and possible
soldier and civilian casualties, as well as the potential for
catastrophic results to international relations and agreements. In
one such example of these enormous potential costs, the US and UK
wished to stop a Russian ship from delivering ammunition to the
Assad regime in Syria in 2012. Intercepting or confronting a
Russian ship in transit could have erupted into open conflict, so
they sought an alternative, non-confrontational maneuver: instead
of military intervention, the UK persuaded the ship's insurer,
London's Standard Club, to withdraw the ship's insurance. This loss
of insurance caused the ship to return to Russia, thus avoiding an
international clash as well as the delivery of deadly weapons to
Syria. This use of legal maneuvering in lieu of armed force is
known as "lawfare" and is becoming a critical strategic platform.
In Lawfare, author Orde Kittrie's draws on his experiences as a
lawfare practitioner, US State Department attorney, and
international law scholar in analyzing the theory and practice of
the strategic leveraging of law as an increasingly powerful and
effective weapon in the current global security landscape. Lawfare
incorporates case studies of recent offensive and defensive lawfare
by the United States, Iran, China, and by both sides of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict and includes dozens of examples of how
lawfare has thus been waged and defended against. Kittrie notes
that since private attorneys can play important and decisive roles
in their nations' national security plans through their expertise
in areas like financial law, maritime insurance law, cyber law, and
telecommunications law, the full scope of lawfare's impact and
possibilities are just starting to be understood. With
international security becoming an ever complicated minefield of
concerns and complications, understanding this alternative to armed
force has never been more important.
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