A brief history of norms -- International rules for war zones -- Money -- regulating conflict finance 79 -- Weapons -- regulating the arms trade -- Fighters -- regulating mobilization -- A brief history of norms II -- Taking property in war -- Labour exploitation in war -- Commercial crime in war -- Conclusion -- regulating the global value chains of war.
Summary:
"This is book is concerned with an aspect of war that is hidden in plain sight. The economic aspects of war are blindingly obvious: they are there in the salaries and upkeep of the fighters deployed, in the weapons used, and in the survival strategies of people caught in the war zone. Yet, the ways in which law regulates the economic dimensions of conflict has been largely neglected by the jurists, diplomats and other who are usually concerned about how war is regulated. This book is an attempt to correct this neglect. Drawing on the social science of violent in conflict, and on the history of various regimes of public international law, the book makes a simple claim (or two): the economic dimensions of armed conflict should be brought out of obscurity and they should be regulated. To this end, the chapters that follow make visible the ways in which public international regulates war economies, what norms are deployed, what obligations the law creates, and to what purposes"-- Provided by publisher.
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