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Negotiating sovereignty and human rights takes the transatlantic conflict over the International Criminal Court as a lens for an enquiry into the normative foundations of international society. The author shows how the way in which actors refer to core norms of the international society such as sovereignty and human rights affect the process and outcome of international negotiations. The book offers an innovative take on the long-standing debate over sovereignty and human rights in international relations. It goes beyond the simple and sometimes ideological duality of sovereignty versus human rights by showing that sovereignty and human rights are not competing principles in international relations, as is often argued, but complement each other. -- .
The issue of prisoners in war is a highly timely topic that has
received much attention from both scholars and practitioners since
the start of the military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq and
the ensuing legal and political problems concerning detainees in
those conflicts. This book analyzes these contemporary problems and
challenges against the background of their historical development.
It provides a multidisciplinary yet highly coherent perspective on
the historical trajectory of legal and ethical norms in this field
by integrating the historical analysis of war with a study of the
emergence of the modern legal regime of prisoners in war. In doing
so, it provides the first comprehensive study of prisoners,
detainees and internees in war, covering a broad range of both
regular and irregular wars from the crusades to contemporary
counterinsurgency campaigns.
Over the last decade (and indeed ever since the Cold War), the rise
of insurgents and non-state actors in war, and their readiness to
use terror and other irregular methods of fighting, have led
commentators to speak of 'new wars'. They have assumed that the
'old wars' were waged solely between states, and were accordingly
fought between comparable and 'symmetrical' armed forces. Much of
this commentary has lacked context or sophistication. It has been
bounded by norms and theories more than the messiness of reality.
Fed by the impact of the 9/11 attacks, it has privileged some wars
and certain trends over others. Most obviously it has been
historically unaware. But it has also failed to consider many of
the other dimensions which help us to define what war is--legal,
ethical, religious, and social.
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