Add to ORKGThe laws of war govern the weapons and tactics that belligerents may use against each other. This paper uses a model of conflict to explain and evaluate the laws of war. In the model a nation’s propensity to engage in conflict is a positive function of the effectiveness of military technology, and a negative function of the destructiveness of technology. Accordingly, in theory nations would want to agree to laws of war that permit destructive weapons and tactics but limit their effectiveness. However, nations with different endowments and resources will enjoy differential advantages, and this makes agreement on specific laws of war very difficult. The paper discusses empirical implications of the argument, and discusses whether the Hague Co...
This article was first published in 34 Revue de Droit Militaire et de Droit de la Guerre 73 (1995)
Everyone would agree that the renovation of international law presents a problem of commanding impor...
This book presents a distinctive approach to the study of war and its law. It provides a vehicle for...
Research examining whether the laws of war change state behavior has produced conflicting results, ...
What is the purpose of the international law on armed conflict, and why would opponents bent on dest...
Professor Dickinson anticipates the 1921 Conference of Washington on arms control and limitation in ...
First published in When Battle Rages, How Can Law Protect? 7 14th Hammarskjold Forum, John Carey ed....
The struggle to define the contours of the legal regime and to correctly communicate those expectati...
For better or worse, participants in a civilization of science and technology are locked in a relent...
"This book is designed to teach both law students and military professionals the underlying principl...
Theoretical understandings of war have been dominated by the thought of Clausewitz for a number of d...
In all revolutionary periods customary law tends to suffer from emotional attack and from the popula...
Law and Morality at War offers a broadly instrumentalist defense of the authority of the laws of war...
What is the purpose of the international law on armed conflict, and why would opponents bent on dest...
Most wars between countries end quickly and at relatively low cost. The few in which high-intensity ...
This article was first published in 34 Revue de Droit Militaire et de Droit de la Guerre 73 (1995)
Everyone would agree that the renovation of international law presents a problem of commanding impor...
This book presents a distinctive approach to the study of war and its law. It provides a vehicle for...
Research examining whether the laws of war change state behavior has produced conflicting results, ...
What is the purpose of the international law on armed conflict, and why would opponents bent on dest...
Professor Dickinson anticipates the 1921 Conference of Washington on arms control and limitation in ...
First published in When Battle Rages, How Can Law Protect? 7 14th Hammarskjold Forum, John Carey ed....
The struggle to define the contours of the legal regime and to correctly communicate those expectati...
For better or worse, participants in a civilization of science and technology are locked in a relent...
"This book is designed to teach both law students and military professionals the underlying principl...
Theoretical understandings of war have been dominated by the thought of Clausewitz for a number of d...
In all revolutionary periods customary law tends to suffer from emotional attack and from the popula...
Law and Morality at War offers a broadly instrumentalist defense of the authority of the laws of war...
What is the purpose of the international law on armed conflict, and why would opponents bent on dest...
Most wars between countries end quickly and at relatively low cost. The few in which high-intensity ...
This article was first published in 34 Revue de Droit Militaire et de Droit de la Guerre 73 (1995)
Everyone would agree that the renovation of international law presents a problem of commanding impor...
This book presents a distinctive approach to the study of war and its law. It provides a vehicle for...