The dissertation investigates why certain weapons continue, or cease to be employed on the battlefields. Employing an interpretivist perspective, it investigates an aspect largely overlooked by the extant literature: the impact of the meta-norm of 'fighting justly' on actors' weapons utilizations. The meta-norm of fighting justly is defined as the collective preconceptions shared by actors, on how and when the extant laws of war (jus in bello) either ban or allow weapons utilization. My work reveals that the significant shift in the utilization of three weapons (chemical weapons, incendiary weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles) can be explained by shifts in the dominant perceptions of the meta-norm of fighting justly. It is when actors beli...
This thesis consists in a critical analysis of international law’s traditional historical narrative ...
The Afghan war (since 2001) may be seen as a new asymmetric conflict. It has all characteristics of ...
The laws of armed conflict (LOAC), in an inadvertent but macabre paradox, are serving as weapons of ...
This dissertation addresses the rarely examined issue of disqualification of weapons from the battle...
Pourquoi certaines armes disparaissent des champs de bataille tandis que d’autres ne cessent d’y êtr...
Advisors: Andrea Radasanu.Committee members: Scot Schraufnagel; S. Adam Seagrave; Ches Thurber.Inclu...
Throughout history, humans have demonstrated a proclivity for using violence against one another as ...
En Irak et en Afghanistan, les EEI (engins explosifs improvisés) ont durement atteint les matériels ...
International audienceThis manuscript is the result of a colloquium devoted to armament, theme at th...
The paper focuses on the argumentative process through which new international norms prohibiting the...
La théorie de la guerre juste a fournit les principes qui forment la base de nos intuitions concern...
This doctoral thesis addresses crucial theoretical and policy questions concerning the morality of f...
Pourquoi et comment se battait-on à la fin du Moyen Âge et durant le XVIe siècle ? Avec quelles arme...
International audienceOriginally, war was seen as a natural way of acquiring wealth or power. War wa...
In this thesis, we study the warrior’s moral dilemma, between the moral interdiction of killing huma...
This thesis consists in a critical analysis of international law’s traditional historical narrative ...
The Afghan war (since 2001) may be seen as a new asymmetric conflict. It has all characteristics of ...
The laws of armed conflict (LOAC), in an inadvertent but macabre paradox, are serving as weapons of ...
This dissertation addresses the rarely examined issue of disqualification of weapons from the battle...
Pourquoi certaines armes disparaissent des champs de bataille tandis que d’autres ne cessent d’y êtr...
Advisors: Andrea Radasanu.Committee members: Scot Schraufnagel; S. Adam Seagrave; Ches Thurber.Inclu...
Throughout history, humans have demonstrated a proclivity for using violence against one another as ...
En Irak et en Afghanistan, les EEI (engins explosifs improvisés) ont durement atteint les matériels ...
International audienceThis manuscript is the result of a colloquium devoted to armament, theme at th...
The paper focuses on the argumentative process through which new international norms prohibiting the...
La théorie de la guerre juste a fournit les principes qui forment la base de nos intuitions concern...
This doctoral thesis addresses crucial theoretical and policy questions concerning the morality of f...
Pourquoi et comment se battait-on à la fin du Moyen Âge et durant le XVIe siècle ? Avec quelles arme...
International audienceOriginally, war was seen as a natural way of acquiring wealth or power. War wa...
In this thesis, we study the warrior’s moral dilemma, between the moral interdiction of killing huma...
This thesis consists in a critical analysis of international law’s traditional historical narrative ...
The Afghan war (since 2001) may be seen as a new asymmetric conflict. It has all characteristics of ...
The laws of armed conflict (LOAC), in an inadvertent but macabre paradox, are serving as weapons of ...