Traditions of War: Occupation, Resistance and the Law

by Karma Nabulsi

Overview

This book examines wars and military occupation and the ideas underlying them. It explores the laws of war, the body of rules which sought to regulate the practices of war, and those permitted to fight in war. The central challenge posed by the principle in the modern laws of war has been the distinction between lawful and unlawful combatants; a distinction that has never been fully resolved.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199279470
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/11/2005
Series:	Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropol
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.70(d)
Lexile:	1570L (what's this?)

About the Author

Karma Nabulsi is Fellow in Politics at St. Edmund Hall and University Lecturer in International Relations at Oxford University.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Modern Laws of War from 1874 to 1949
Occupying Armies and Civilian Populations in Nineteenth Century Europe
Occupying Armies and Civilian Populations in Nineteenth Century Europe
The Conceptualisation of War and the Value of Political Traditions
High Priests of the Temple of Janus: The Martial Tradition of War
The Enigma of the Middle Way: Grotius and The Grotian Tradition on War
Hope and Heroic Action: Rousseau, Paoli, Kosciuszko, and the Republican Tradition of War
Conclusion