![]() ![]() The commonality among these phenomena is that the regulation over the conduct of war has produced unintended consequences, and indeed the book’s subtitle encapsulates this key contention. States no longer declare wars or conclude peace agreements so as to avoid the legal consequences that come with such formal declarations secessionist rebel groups, on the other hand, increasingly sign peace agreements and abide by humanitarian rules to appease the international community. The author examines the political motivations of key actors, particularly state militaries and secessionist rebel groups, in order to explain how the above phenomena are connected to each other. How do we make sense of all these seemingly unrelated and puzzling phenomena? A landmark work on international politics and the law of armed conflicts, Wars of Law belongs on the bookshelf beside such major works as Michael Walzer’s Just and Unjust Wars, David Kennedy’s Of War and Law, James Morrow’s Order Within Anarchy, and Sandesh Sivakumaran’s The Law of Non-International Armed Conflict.įazal weaves a story with interlocking observations about recent trends in war and conflict, observing that states no longer declare wars as they did a hundred years ago that interstate wars witness fewer and fewer peace agreements while intrastate wars see more and more of them and that secessionist rebel groups follow the rules of war more than non-secessionist groups. Tanisha Fazal’s recent book takes a broad, sweeping look at trends in the laws of war over the last hundred years, covering both interstate and intrastate warfare. Wars of Law: Unintended Consequences in the Regulation of Armed Conflict, Tanisha M.
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