James D. Morrow

Order within Anarchy (eBook, ePUB)

The Laws of War as an International Institution

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Order within Anarchy focuses on how the laws of war create strategic expectations about how states and their soldiers will act during war, which can help produce restraint. The success of the laws of war depends on three related factors: compliance between warring states and between soldiers on the battlefield, and control of soldiers by their militaries. A statistical study of compliance of the laws of war during the twentieth century shows that joint ratification strengthens both compliance and reciprocity, compliance varies across issues with the scope for individual violations, and violations occur early in war. Close study of the treatment of prisoners of war during World Wars I and II demonstrates the difficulties posed by states' varied willingness to limit violence, a lack of clarity about what restraint means, and the practical problems of restraint on the battlefield.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139985956
• Artikelnr.: 52940405

Autorenporträt

James D. Morrow is A. F. K. Organski Collegiate Professor of World Politics and Research Professor at the Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan. He previously taught at the Graduate Institute of International Studies at Stanford University, the University of Rochester and Michigan State University. He is the author of Game Theory for Political Scientists, co-author of The Logic of Political Survival, and author of more than sixty articles in refereed journals and other publications. He was president of the Peace Science Society (International) in 2008-9. Morrow received the Karl Deutsch Award from the International Studies Association in 1994 and has been a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution and an Advanced Research Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies for the Social Science Research Council.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Common conjectures, norms, and identities
3. The laws of war in their strategic context
4. Modeling minutia
5. Patterns of compliance with the laws of war during the twentieth century
6. Statistical gore
7. Spoilt darlings? Treatment of prisoners of war during the World Wars
8. Assessing variation across issues: aerial bombing, chemical weapons, treatment of civilians, and conduct on the high seas
9. Dynamics of common conjectures: the rational evolution of norms
10. Conclusion: current issues and policy insights.