The Cold War and International Criminal Justice

Abstract

This chapter explores the nature of military law and IHL during the cold war period. It explores what treaties were completed, Additional Protocols I and II of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, the ad hoc international tribunals of the 1990s and 2000s, and examines the ICJ’s ruling of the legality of nuclear weapons.

Citation

Mullins, C.W. (2024), "The Cold War and International Criminal Justice", A Socio-Legal History of the Laws of War (Emerald Advances in Historical Criminology), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 121-150. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83753-384-820241006