The Laws of Yesterday’s Wars 4

From Mesopotamia to Somalia

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2025
Martinus Nijhoff (Verlag)
978-90-04-70307-0 (ISBN)

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How international is international humanitarian law? The Laws of Yesterday's Wars 4: From Mesopotamia to Somalia, together with its companion volumes, attempts to answer that question. It offers a culture-by-culture account of various unique restrictions placed on warfare over time. Containing essays by a range of laws of war academics and practitioners, it approaches the laws of yesterday’s wars from a wide cross-section of history and culture, seeking to find any common ground and to demonstrate a history of international law outside the usual confines of its ‘development’ by Europeans and its later ‘contributions.’ This volume includes studies on Egyptian, Jewish and Somali rules of war.

Samuel White, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore, where he is the Senior Research Fellow in Peace and Security at the Centre for International Law.

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Introduction

Samuel Camden Duckett White

1 Ancient Egyptian Directives of Warfare

Anthony Spalinger

2 The Hittites

Rory Cox

3 Jewish Ethics of War: the Middle Ages

Norman Solomon

4 The Traditional Somali Laws of War

Ayan Abdirashid Ali

5 Changing the Narrative: a Reflection on the Impact of the Tool on African Traditions and the Preservation of Humanity during Warfare

Tamalin Bolus and Sarah Jean Mabeza

6 West African Laws of War – Adopting the Marxist Stages of Historical Development

Godfree Matthew

7 Conclusion

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.09.2025
Reihe/Serie	International Humanitarian Law Series ; 75
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10	90-04-70307-1 / 9004703071
ISBN-13	978-90-04-70307-0 / 9789004703070
Zustand	Neuware