This updated and revised second edition of Advanced Introduction to International Conflict and Security Law provides a concise and insightful guide to the key principles of international law governing peacetime security, arms control, the use of force, armed conflict and postconflict situations. Nigel D. White explores the complex legal regimes that have been created to control levels of armaments, to limit the occasions when governments can use military force, to mitigate the conduct of warfare and to build peace.
ABM | Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (1972) |
AJIL | American Journal of International Law |
AP | Additional Protocol 1977 |
ARIO | Articles on the Responsibility of International Organisations (2011) |
ASEAN | Association of South East Asian Nations |
ASIL | American Society of International Law |
AU | African Union |
BWC | Biological Weapons Convention (1972) |
BYBIL | British Yearbook of International Law |
CWC | Chemical Weapons Convention (1993) |
DRC | Democratic Republic of Congo |
ECtHR | European Court of Human Rights |
ECR | European Court Reports |
EJIL | European Journal of International Law |
EU | European Union |
GC | Geneva Convention 1949 |
IAC | International Armed Conflict |
IAEA | International Atomic Energy Agency |
ICC | International Criminal Court |
ICCPR | International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966) |
ICESCR | International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966) |
ICISS | International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty |
ICJ | International Court of Justice |
ICLQ | International and Comparative Law Quarterly |
p. ixICRC | International Committee of the Red Cross |
ICTY | International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia |
IHRR | International Human Rights Reports |
ILC | International Law Commission |
IOLR | International Organizations Law Review |
ISIL | Islamic State |
JCSL | Journal of Conflict and Security Law |
JUFIL | Journal on the Use of Force and International Law |
LJIL | Leiden Journal of International Law |
LOAC | Law of Armed Conflict |
MAD | Mutually Assured Destruction |
MJIL | Melbourne Journal of International Law |
NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organisation |
NGO | Non-governmental organisation |
NIAC | Non-International Armed Conflict |
NNWS | Non-nuclear weapons state |
NPT | Non-Proliferation Treaty (1968) |
NWS | Nuclear weapons state |
OAS | Organisation of American States |
OAU | Organisation of African Union |
ONUC | United Nations Operation in the Congo |
OPCW | Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons |
OST | Outer Space Treaty (1967) |
P5 | Five permanent members of the Security Council |
PMSC | Private military and security company |
PoW | Prisoner of War |
PRIF | Peace Research Institute Frankfurt |
R2P | Responsibility to protect |
RIAA | Reports of International Arbitral Awards |
SEA | Sexual exploitation and abuse |
START | Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty |
TCN | Troop contributing nation |
TPNW | Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (2017) |
p. xUDHR | Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) |
UN | United Nations |
UNDP | United Nations Development Programme |
UNEF | United Nations Emergency Force |
UNGA | United Nations General Assembly |
WMD | Weapons of Mass Destruction |