Publisher's Synopsis
The provision includes the protection of victims of armed conflict, ie those rendered hors de combat by sickness, injury, shipwreck or capture and civilians, under the 1949 Geneva Conventions and 1977 Additional Protocols. It also includes the wide range of international provisions governing and constraining methods and means of warfare. These issues are analyzed with particular reference to the experience of modern armed conflicts, including the 1990?91 Gulf Conflict and the conflicts in former Yugoslavia. In addition to analysis of the substantive law, the book also considers its theory and patterns of development and institutional structures.
