商品簡介
Cogen (international law, Gent U. and the Free U. of Brussels, Belgium) argues that democracies have over time developed a particular strategy towards the role of law in warfare rooted in Western Civilization, which he describes as definitionally rooted in the legacies of the Bible, Greco-Roman Antiquity, and the great works of European-American history. He examines what he describes as the three key prescriptive moments of this development: the foundational international legal works of Alberico Gentili and Hugo Grotius in the context of the wars against Catholic Spain in the 16th century, World War I, and World War II. For the latter two, he investigates the concept of "lawfare" as it was deployed in relation to combating subversion, economic issues, espionage, restriction of residence and free movement, loyalty, imposing democracy on the defeated Axis powers, and responding to war-related crimes and emergency measures following the conclusion of the war. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Marc Cogen is Professor of International Law at Gent University and the Free University of Brussels, Belgium.
