Review: International Law and Organization: The Law of War
| Published date | 01 December 1991 |
| Date | 01 December 1991 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/002070209104600409 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
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INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL
ism
on
which
they
are
based,
will
strike
readers
not
intuitively
attracted
to
Grieco's
vision
as
a
less-than-promising
method
for
building
useful
theory.
By
pushing
his
claims
to
an
extreme
limit,
however,
Grieco
may
have
succeeded
in
directing
attention
to
more interesting,
complex,
and
fruitful
questions
for
mid-range
theorizing.
He
leaves
this
reader
wondering,
for
example,
about
the
specific
conditions
under
which
actors
operating
in
the
name
of
the
state
actually
switch
the
bases
of
their
strategic
calculations,
and
whether
those
conditions
vary
system-
atically
across
security
and
economic
issues.
Beyond irresolvable
para-
digmatic
debate,
the
most
enduring
legacy
of
Cooperation among
Nations
may
be
the
stimulus
it
provides
to
the
search
for
answers to
such
questions.
L.W.
Pauly/University
of
Toronto
TIHE
LAW
OF
WAR
Ingrid
Detter
De
Lupis
New York:
Cambridge
University
Press,
1988,
xx,
41
i
pp,
US$6
4.5o
cloth,
US$2
4.95
paper
The
law
of
war
has
been
substantially
modernized
over the
last
twenty
years,
particularly
since
the
adoption
of
the
Additional
Protocols
of
1977
to
the
Geneva
Conventions
of
1949.
Those
protocols
attempt
to
regulate
modern
methods
of
warfare
such
as
air
bombardment
and
guerrilla
conflict.
There
is
a
need
for
new
treatises
and
new
survey
texts
addressing
the
modern
law
of
war.
This
book
is
the
first
attempt
to
provide
an
English-language survey
text
since
the
195os
and,
as
such,
it
is
to
be
welcomed.
The
book
is
divided into
three
parts.
Part
i
sets
out
the
conceptual
framework
of
the
international
law
prohibiting
the
use
of
force
and
is
a
reasonably
successful
attempt
to
integrate
the
perspectives
of
law
and
political
science
on
the
subject.
One
would have
liked
to
see
a
more detailed
treatment
of
many
of
the
issues
in
part
i
i,
which
analyses
the
rules
of
combat
and
humanitarian
rules,
although
the
discussion
of
the
fundamental
concept
of the
military
objective
(pp
232-41)
is
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