Howard, Michael, George J. Andreopoulos, and Mark R. Shulman, eds.The Laws of War: Constraints on Warfare in the Western World. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994. An excellent history of the constraints on war, this edited volume expertly traces developments in the formal and in...
commitments to the laws of war, and Japan's exploitation of gaps in the law was put to good use at The Hague, when Japan helped to revise the laws of neutrality, maritime warfare, and declarations of war in order to change the rules of what had formerly been an exclusive European club...
President Barack Obama's issuance of Presidential Policy Directive 20 on cyber-warfare in October 2012 and the international laws of war. America's National Security Agency (NSA) and military cyber policies are addressed, along with the U.S. government's policy regarding the identification of ...
Harrison Dinniss, Heather.Cyber Warfare and the Laws of War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012. DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511894527 A thoroughly researched monograph based on the author’s PhD dissertation that focuses on the use of force and the law of armed conflict. The book also ser...
Israel’s Likud government is reported to be engaged in secret negotiations with several nations to accept displaced Gazans, most notably the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a nation beset by environmental crises, humanitarian challenges, political instability, and ceaseless internal warfare (Times of...
Amen. One of the few proper roles of government is to reduce crime by catching, convicting, and jailing bad people. The government is less likely to achieve that goal if it instead imposes gun control laws that merely disarm law-abiding people. P.S. For my entire collection of gun contro...
Posted inCaliforniaClass warfareTaxationBig Government,Class warfare California’s top fiscal problem is an ever-growing burden of government spending. In case anyone thinks that is just empty rhetoric, the state budget over the past three decadeshas risen at twice the rate of inflation. ...
Yet the international scene has seen an increasing movement away from traditionally declared war toward multinational peacekeeping missions geared at containing local conflicts when perceived as potential threats to their respective regions' political stability. While individual nations' laws governing warfare ...
or unauthorized broadcasting. There also is a right of “hot pursuit,” provided that the pursuit itself is continuous, onto the high seas from the territorial sea or economic zone of the pursuing state in order to detain a vessel suspected of violating the laws of the coastal state in quest...
DuringWorld War IBritain sought to justify its interference with trade between neutrals, when such trade might have an enemy destination, on the ground of changed conditions of warfare. British Foreign SecretarySir Edward Grey’s note to U.S. Secretary of StateRobert Lansingon July 23, 1915,ass...