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Do the Geneva Conventions Matter?

Edited by: Matthew Evangelista, Nina Tanne

ISBN13: 9780199379774
Published: October 2017
Publisher: Oxford University Press USA
Country of Publication: USA
Format: Hardback
Price: £117.50
Paperback edition , ISBN13 9780199379781



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The Geneva Conventions are the best-known and longest-established laws governing warfare, but what difference do they make to how states engage in armed conflict?

Since the start of the "War on Terror" with 9/11, these protocols have increasingly been incorporated into public discussion. We have entered an era where contemporary wars often involve terrorism and guerrilla tactics, but how have the rules that were designed for more conventional forms of interstate violence adjusted?

Do the Geneva Conventions Matter? provides a rich, comparative analysis of the laws that govern warfare and a more specific investigation relating to state practice. Matthew Evangelista and Nina Tannenwald convey the extent and conditions that symbolic or "ritual" compliance translates into actual compliance on the battlefield by looking at important studies across history.

To name a few, they navigate through the Algerian War for independence from France in the 1950s and 1960s; the US wars in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan; Iranian and Israeli approaches to the laws of war; and the legal obligations of private security firms and peacekeeping forces.

Thoroughly researched, this work adds to the law and society literature in sociology, the constructivist literature in international relations, and legal scholarship on "internalization." Do the Geneva Conventions Matter? gives insight into how the Geneva regime has constrained guerrilla warfare and terrorism and the factors that affect protect human rights in wartime.

Subjects:
Public International Law
Contents:
1. Assessing the Effects and Effectiveness of the Geneva Conventions, Nina Tannenwald
2. The Origins and Evolution of the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the 1977 Additional Protocols, Giovanni Mantilla
3. The Struggle to Fight a Humane War: The United States, the Korean War, and the 1949 Geneva Conventions, Sahr Conway-Lanz
4. America, the 1949 Geneva Conventions, and War Crime Courts-martial in the Vietnam Conflict, Gary D. Solis
5. Geneva Convention Compliance in Iraq and Afghanistan, Elizabeth Grimm Arsenault
6. The French Army and the Geneva Conventions during the Algerian War of Independence and After, Raphaëlle Branche
7. Russia, Chechnya, and the Geneva Conventions, 1994-2006: Norms and the Problem of Internalization, Mark Kramer
8. The Application of International Humanitarian Law by the Israel Defence Forces: A Legal and Organizational Analysis, Amichai Cohen and Eyal Ben-Ari
9. Noncompliance with the Geneva Conventions in the Wars of Yugoslav Secession, R. Craig Nation
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11. Private Military and Security Companies, Renée de Nevers
12. The Geneva Conventions: Do they matter in the context of peacekeeping missions?, Siobhán Wills
13. How the Geneva Conventions Matter, Matthew Evangelista