The Laws of Yesterday's Wars 4

From Mesopotamia to Somalia
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-70307-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 75, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: International Humanitarian Law Series

How international is international humanitarian law? The Laws of Yesterday's Wars 4: From Mesopotamia to West Africa, 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

White, Samuel C Duckett

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.