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The Yielding of Force to Reason

A Socio-Legal History of the Laws of War

ISBN: 978-1-83753-385-5, eISBN: 978-1-83753-384-8

Publication date: 27 September 2024

Abstract

This chapter examines the explosion in International Humanitarian Law between the US Civil War and World War I. The primary foci are the Hague Conventions on land warfare and the Geneva Conventions for the sick and wounded. This body of treaties is the foundation of IHL and the modern laws of war. Most of central issues in the international laws of war emerge in this period.

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Mullins, C.W. (2024), "The Yielding of Force to Reason", A Socio-Legal History of the Laws of War (Emerald Advances in Historical Criminology), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 41-65. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83753-384-820241003

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Emerald Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2024 Christopher W. Mullins. Published under exclusive licence by Emerald Publishing Limited