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Shane Reeves,
Robert Lawless
| Jan 27, 2021 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Conflict Classification, Interpretation & Development
Reexamining the Law of War for Great Power Competition The United States has shifted its national defense posture to focus on “the reemergence of long-term, strategic competition” with “revisionist powers”—namely China and Russia. The government is heavily...
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Sean Watts
| Dec 15, 2020 | AoW Posts, Detention, Interpretation & Development, Topics
Interpretation in the Updated GCIII Commentary The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Updated Commentary to the Third Geneva Convention is a remarkable feat of scholarship worthy of serious academic attention. It leaves almost no interpretive stone...
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Jeroen van den Boogaard
| Dec 11, 2020 | AoW Posts, Interpretation & Development, Topics
Reimagining IHL Principles Part II: A New Framework Part II: A New Framework for IHL Principles To open the debate, in my previous post I argued that military necessity, humanity, chivalry, and proportionality are not IHL principles. Rather, they are either...
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Jeroen van den Boogaard
| Dec 8, 2020 | AoW Posts, Interpretation & Development, Topics
Reimagining IHL Principles Part I: The Wrong Principles Part I: We Have Been Using the Wrong Principles Most textbooks and State military manuals on the law of armed conflict, or international humanitarian law (IHL), contain a chapter entitled “the principles of IHL.”...
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Agnieszka Jachec-Neale
| Nov 19, 2020 | "Attack" Symposium, Accountability, AoW Posts, Interpretation & Development, Targeting, Topics
The Unintended Consequences of International Court Decisions In response to a prosecution appeal in the case of The Prosecutor v. Bosco Ntaganda, the International Criminal Court (ICC) is currently considering the meaning of “attack” under the Rome Statute. The...
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Laurie R. Blank,
Daphné Richemond-Barak
| Nov 12, 2020 | AoW Posts, Interpretation & Development, Topics
Ending Wars: The Law of War’s Latest Source of Stress The nineteenth anniversary of 9/11 offered a telling reminder of the problem of “forever wars.” In the United States, few Americans under the age of thirty can remember when the country was not involved in...
