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War Crimes - Law, Politics, & Armed Conflict in the Modern World (Hardcover)
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War Crimes - Law, Politics, & Armed Conflict in the Modern World (Hardcover)
Series: Seminar Studies
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This book is a concise and accessible introduction to the problem
of war crimes in modern history, emphasizing the development of
laws aimed at regulating the conduct of armed conflict developed
from the 19th Century to the present. Bringing together multiple
strands of recent research in history, political science, and law
the book starts with an overview of the attempts across the
pre-modern world to regulate the initiation, conduct, and outcomes
of war. It them moves on to present a survey of the legal
revolution of the 19th Century when, amidst a global welter of
colonial wars, the first body of formal codes and laws relating to
distinguishing legal from criminal conduct in war was developed.
Further chapters investigate failed but influential attempts to
develop the laws of war in the post-World War I period, summarize
the major landmarks in international law related to war crimes,
such as the Hague conventions and the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials,
as well as hundreds of lesser-known post-World War II trials in
Europe and Asia. It also looks at the origins and debated
significance of the Genocide Convention of 1948 and the 1949 Geneva
Conventions accounts for the acceleration worldwide of war crimes
investigations and trials from the 1970s into the 2000s and
summarizes current thinking about international law and the rapidly
changing nature of warfare worldwide as well as the memorialization
of war crimes. Including images, documents, a bibliography
highlighting the most recent scholarship, a chronology, who's who,
and a glossary, this is the perfect introduction for those wishing
to understand the complex field or war crimes history and its
politics.
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