Monthly Archives: June 2024

The Ethics of Violence: Recent Literature on the Creation of the Contemporary Regime of Law and War

Amanda Alexander writes in 2021: Abstract: This paper reviews a body of recent literature that interrogates the development and deployment of the contemporary regime of political violence. This literature includes Samuel Moyn’s account of the emergence and dominance of the … Continue reading

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Filling the Gaps: The Expansion of International Humanitarian Law and the Juridification of the Free-Fighter

Amanda Alexander writes in 2023: Abstract: This article traces the expansion of international law from the Hague Conventions, where only a state’s soldiers had legal status, to the contemporary understanding that international law governs all participants in conflict. This can … Continue reading

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Human rights – the key to all mythologies! (6-21-24)

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Narrative Contingency and International Humanitarian Law: Crimes against humanity in Cixin Liu’s post-humanist universe

Amanda Alexander writes: International humanitarian law (IHL) is the term which names, and also conceptualises, the current regime of the laws of war. The name belongs to a particular narrative about the history and purposes of this regime. In the … Continue reading

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Decoding Israel’s Coming War With Hezbollah (6-20-24)

01:00 Caitlin Clark Conundrum, https://www.takimag.com/article/34053/08:00 Col Douglas Macgregor: Israel Prepares for All Out War in Lebanon, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXD8t7gYpTo17:30 Turkey invades Cyprus with Russia’s blessing if Israel attacks Hezbollah28:00 Is Israel Committing Genocide? https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15536541:00 Revolutions in International Law: The Legacies of 1917, … Continue reading

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