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June 14th, 2017

Book Launch: International Law and New Wars

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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

Dipa Patel

June 14th, 2017

Book Launch: International Law and New Wars

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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

By failing to address ‘new wars’ international law has added to insecurity. Is it time for a second generation human security resting upon the laws of humanity?

This event launches Christine Chinkin and Mary Kaldor’s new book International Law and New Wars, which examines how international law fails to address the contemporary experience of what are known as ‘new wars’ – instances of armed conflict and violence in places such as Syria, Ukraine, Libya, Mali, the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan. International law, largely constructed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, rests to a great extent on the outmoded concept of war drawn from European experience – inter-state clashes involving battles between regular and identifiable armed forces. The book shows how different approaches are associated with different interpretations of international law, and, in some cases, this has dangerously weakened the legal restraints on war established after 1945. It puts forward a practical case for what it defines as second generation human security and the implications this carries for international law.

Speakers

Christine Chinkin is Director of the Centre for Women, Peace and Security.

Mary Kaldor is Director of the Civil Society and  Human Security Research Unit.

Javier Solana is President at ESADE Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics and Distinguished Fellow at The Brookings Institution.

Chair

Professor Toby Dodge is Director of the LSE Middle East Centre, a Professor in the International Relations Department at LSE, and a Senior Consulting Fellow for the Middle East, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London.

 

The book can be purchased online here.


Tuesday 20 June 2017, 6.30pm-8pm
International Law and New Wars
Venue: Old Theatre, LSE

Twitter Hashtag for this event: #LSEnewwars


International Law and New Wars is hosted by The Centre for Women, Peace and Security and The Conflict Research Programme

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Dipa Patel

Dipa Patel is the Communications and Events Manager for the Department of International Development at LSE. She is also the Managing Editor of the ID at LSE Blog.

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