Yishai Beer (Professor of Law, Professor of Law, Radzyner Law Schoo

Military Professionalism and Humanitarian Law

The Struggle to Reduce the Hazards of War

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Produktbeschreibung

This book challenges the unacceptable gap between the positive rules of the international law governing armed hostilities and actual state practice. It discusses reducing the human suffering caused by this reality. This book offers a new paradigm based on reality that may elevate the humanitarian threshold by replacing the currently problematic imperatives imposed upon militaries with professionally-based, attainable requirements.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9780190881146
• ISBN-10: 0190881143
• Artikelnr.: 50432210

Autorenporträt

Yishai Beer is Professor of Law at Radzyner Law School at the Interdisciplinary Center at Herzliya, and was recently a Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. He is a retired Major General in the Israel Defense Forces, where his last position was in command of an Army corps. Previously he served as President of the Israeli Military Court of Appeals and as a division commander. In parallel to his long military career, he was on the law faculty at the Hebrew University where he taught courses and seminars in taxation. At different times, he was a visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School, and a research fellow at NYU Law School. Professor Beer received his LLB from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, LLM from the London School of Economics, and PhD from the Hebrew University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Chapter I
Revitalizing the Concept of Military Necessity
Chapter II
Lawful War of Self-Defense: When Not to Be a Sitting Duck
Chapter III
Military Strategy: The Blind Spot of International Humanitarian Law
Chapter IV
Defensive Deterrence: Legalizing the Stepchild of International Law
Chapter V
Conclusions
Index