Nobuo Hayashi

Military Necessity (eBook, PDF)

The Art, Morality and Law of War

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

What does it mean to say that international humanitarian law (IHL) strikes a realistic and meaningful balance between military necessity and humanity, and that the law therefore 'accounts for' military necessity? To what consequences does the law 'accounting for' military necessity give rise? Through real-life examples and careful analysis, this book challenges received wisdom on the subject by devising a new theory that not only reaffirms Kriegsrason's fallacy but also explains why IHL has no reason to restrict or prohibit militarily unnecessary conduct on that ground alone. Additionally, the theory hypothesises greater normative significance for humanitarian and chivalrous imperatives when they conflict with IHL rules. By combining international law, jurisprudence, military history, strategic studies, and moral philosophy, this book reveals how rational fighting relates to ethical fighting, how IHL incorporates contrasting values that shape its rules, and how law and theory adapt themselves to war's evolutions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108622660
• Artikelnr.: 66179000

Autorenporträt

Nobuo Hayashi is Visiting Lecturer at the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute. He has two decades of experience researching, publishing, and teaching, including practice at court where he authored submissions, advised prosecutors, and delivered expert presentations at academic and diplomatic conferences. Dr Hayashi specialises in the law of armed conflict, international criminal law and public international law. His most significant works cover military necessity, threat of force, and the law and ethics of nuclear weapons.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: 1. Introduction
Part II. Military Necessity in its Material Context: 2. Fitness of means and vocational competence
3. Objections and responses
Part III. Military Necessity in Its Normative Context: 4. Military necessity and legitimacy modification
5. Inevitable conflict thesis
6. Joint satisfaction thesis I - alignment and indifference
7. Joint satisfaction thesis II - accounting for the military necessity-humanity interplay in IHL norm-creation
Part IV. Military Necessity in its Juridical Context: 8. Joint satisfaction thesis III - exclusionary and non-exclusionary effects
9. Significance and content of juridical military necessity
10. Military necessity and elements of crimes
Part V: 11. Conclusion.