Boyd van Dijk

Preparing for War

The Making of the Geneva Conventions

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Preparing for War, based upon extensive archival research and critical legal methodologies, explores the often misunderstood history of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, among the most important rules for armed conflict ever formulated.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 164mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 785g
• ISBN-13: 9780198868071
• ISBN-10: 0198868073
• Artikelnr.: 66132059

Autorenporträt

Boyd van Dijk is a McKenzie Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He taught previously at the London School of Economics, King's College London, Queen Mary, and the University of Amsterdam.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: The Twisted Road to Geneva
3: Making the Civilian Convention
4: Internationalizing Civil and Colonial Wars
5: Fighters in the Shadow
6: Indiscriminate Warfare: Bombing, Nuclear Weapons, and Starvation
7: Preparing for the Worst
8: Conclusion