Counterinsurgency law : new directions in asymmetric warfare / William Banks.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-275) and index.

The human rights council and the convergence of humanitarian law and human rights law / Dr. Daphné Richemond-Barak -- Proportionality in counterinsurgency : reconciling human rights and humanitarian law / Evan J. Criddle -- Reunifying the law of armed conflict in COIN operations through a sovereign agency theory / Eric Talbot Jensen -- Two sides of the combatant COIN : untangling direct participation in hostilities from belligerent status in noninternational armed conflicts / Geoffrey Corn -- Valor's vices : against a state duty to risk forces in armed conflict / Peter Margulies -- Agency of risk : the competing balance between protecting military forces and the civilian population during counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan / Christopher Jenks -- New approaches to reducing and mitigating harm to civilians / Gregory S. McNeal -- Terrorism and the laws of multi-dimensional warfare / Boaz Ganor -- The use of force regime and unconventional threats : Anwar al-Awlaki as a case study / Robert Chesney -- The Gaza freedom flotilla : politicizing maritime in asymmetric contexts / Corri Zoli.

"The four parts of our book that follow offer a range of legal and policy perspectives on the problems of COIN in particular and irregular warfare in general as twenty-first century asymmetric warfare continues to evolve. The contributors offer analyses and prescriptions that are complimentary in some instances and widely divergent in others."--Xxii, Introduction

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