Ghosts of International Law
The Figure of the Foreign Fighter in a Cultural Perspective
Seiten
2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
9781009358361 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
9781009358361 (ISBN)
Aimed at international lawyers and researchers in humanitarian law, particularly those interested in violent non-state actors. It is suitable for historians of war and of foreign volunteering. The method used will be of interest to researchers working on interdisciplinary approaches to law, history, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies.
Heroes and villains, idealists and mercenaries, freedom fighters and religious fanatics. Foreign fighters tend to defy easy classification. Good and bad images of the foreign combatant epitomize different conceptions of freedom and are used to characterize the rightness or wrongness of this actor in civil wars. The book traces the history of these figures and their afterlife. It does so through an interdisciplinary methodology employing law, history, and psychoanalytical theory, showing how different images of the foreign combatant are utilized to proscribe or endorse foreign fighters in different historical moments. By linking the Spanish, Angolan, and Syrian civil wars, the book demonstrates how these figures function as a precedent for later periods and how their heritage keeps haunting the imaginary of legal actors in the present.
Heroes and villains, idealists and mercenaries, freedom fighters and religious fanatics. Foreign fighters tend to defy easy classification. Good and bad images of the foreign combatant epitomize different conceptions of freedom and are used to characterize the rightness or wrongness of this actor in civil wars. The book traces the history of these figures and their afterlife. It does so through an interdisciplinary methodology employing law, history, and psychoanalytical theory, showing how different images of the foreign combatant are utilized to proscribe or endorse foreign fighters in different historical moments. By linking the Spanish, Angolan, and Syrian civil wars, the book demonstrates how these figures function as a precedent for later periods and how their heritage keeps haunting the imaginary of legal actors in the present.
Alberto Rinaldi has worked for academic and non-academic institutions in Egypt, France, and currently Sweden. His research focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to law and the humanities, including law and emotions, literature, cinema, and pop culture.
Introduction; 1. The Spanish Civil war and the legacy of Nineteenth Century adventurers; 2. The return of the mercenaries: The 1976 Luanda trial in context; 3. Enemies of humanity or freedom fighters? The Jihadist combatant in the Syrian Civil war; Back to the Future; Bibliography; Index.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.12.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 545 g |
| Themenwelt | Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht |
| Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781009358361 / 9781009358361 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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