A History of the Laws of War : The Customs and Laws of War with Regards to Civilians in Times of Conflict.

Cover -- A History of the Laws of War: Volume 2: Civilians -- A History of the Laws of War: Volume 2 -- Table of Contents -- Treaties and Sources -- Introduction -- I Targets -- 1. Projectiles, Fire and Defended Areas -- 2. International Law on Projectiles Prior to the First World War -- 3. Between the Wars -- 4. The Second World War -- 5. The Nuremberg Trials and the 1949 Geneva Conventions -- 6. Between 1949 and 1977 -- 7. The 1977 Additional Protocol 1 to the Geneva Conventions -- 8. From 1980 to the New Century -- II Starvation -- 1. The Beginnings of Siege, Blockade and Scorched Earth -- 2. From The Enlightenment to the Twentieth Century -- 3. The First World War -- 4. The Second World War -- 5. After 1945 -- 6. Two New Conventions and the Additional Protocols -- 7. Scorched Earth Between 1980 and the Twenty-First Century -- 8. Starvation in War Between 1980 and the Twenty-First Century -- III Occupation -- 1. The First Literate Civilisations -- 2. Ancient Israel -- 3. The Greeks -- 4. The Romans -- 5. The Middle Ages -- 6. Forward From the Renaissance -- 7. The Enlightenment -- 8. International Humanitarian Law Emerges -- 9. Two Bad Decades -- 10. The First World War -- 11. The Armenian Genocide -- 12. Between the Wars -- 13. The Second World War -- A. Rape -- B. Reprisals -- C. Killing Civilians in the East -- D. The Holocaust in the West -- 14. Examining the Killing of Civilians at Nuremberg -- 15. The 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide -- 16. The 1949 Convention (iv) Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War -- 17. Between 1949 and 1977 -- 18. The 1977 Additional Protocols and the 1979 Hostage Convention -- 19. Between Pol Pot and Saddam Hussein -- 20. The Wars of the 1990s -- A. The Former Yugoslavia -- B. Rwanda -- C. Sierra Leone and Liberia.

21. The International Criminal Court and its Aftermath -- IV Property -- 1. Beginnings -- 2. The Greeks and the Romans -- 3. The Dark Ages -- 4. The Crusading Period -- 5. The High Middle Ages and the Renaissance -- 6. The Reformation and Early Enlightenment -- 7. The Nineteenth Century -- A. Destruction -- B. Pillage -- 8. The First Half of the Twentieth Century -- A. Destruction -- B. Spoils -- 9. The Second World War -- A. Losing Cultural Property -- B. Plunder -- 10. Forward From 1954 -- 11. Realigning the Last Decades of the Twentieth Century -- Conclusion -- 1. Targeting Civilians -- 2. Is Starvation a Restricted Method of Warfare? -- 3. Are the Practices in Times of Occupation, With Particular Regard to Genocide, Reprisals and Rape Better or Worse Than in the Past? -- 4. Is Property Safe From Pillage and Unnecessary Destruction? -- Index.

This unique new work of reference traces the origins of the modern laws of warfare from the earliest times to the present day relying on written records from as far back as 2400 BC, and using sources ranging from the Bible to Security Council Resolutions.

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