Introduction.Toward an Adaptive International Humanitarian Law

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables vii
4. Introduction.Toward an Adaptive International Humanitarian Law 1
5. Critical debate I. Threshold Issues in Defining Twenty-first-Century Armed Conflicts
6. One. Extraterritorial Law Enforcement or Transnational Counterterrorist Military Operations 23
7. Chapter Two. Preventive Detention of Individuals Engaged in Transnational Hostilities 45
8. Critical Debate II. Status and Liabilities of Nonstate Actors Engaged in Hostilities
9. Chapter Three. “Jousting at Windmills” 67
10. Chapter Four. Direct Participation in Hostilities 85
11. Chapter Five. Nonstate Actors in Armed Conflicts 106
12. Critical Debate III. Changing Twenty-first-Century Battlefields and Armed Forces
13. Chapter Six. Children as Direct Participants in Hostilities 133
14. Chapter Seven. Private Military Contractors and Changing Norms for the Laws of Armed Conflict 150
15. Critical Debate IV. Military Necessity and Humanitarian Priorities in International Humanitarian Law: Productive Tension or Irreconcilable Differences?
16. Chapter Eight. The Principle of Proportionality Under International Humanitarian Law and Operation Cast Lead 171
17. Chapter Nine. Humanizing Irregular Warfare 190
18. Notes 213
19. Contributor bios 287
20. Index 291