Modern Aspects Of The Laws Of Naval Warfare And Maritime Neutrality

by Politakis

• ISBN13: 9780710305893
• ISBN10: 0710305893
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-01-11
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

At a time when experts agree that the laws of naval warfare and maritime neutrality are obsolete and must be reformed, Politakis critically explores international laws governing naval operations. He considers the influence of the UN Charter on traditional military law, and discusses selected topics such as morality and chivalry in the domain of the laws of war and the paradox of today's electronic combat environment.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	xi	(3)
Preface	xiv
Introduction	1	(34)
PART ONE Means and Methods of Naval Warfare	35	(310)
1 THE LEGALITY OF WAR ZONES	35	(131)
I Introduction	35	(4)
II The record of lawlessness: from the Lusitania to the Iranian Airbus	39	(83)
III War zones and the dearth of legal codification	122	(13)
IV War zones in legal thinking: the views of writers	135	(10)
V On the elusive criterion of reasonableness	145	(12)
VI Concluding remarks	157	(9)
2 LEGAL ASPECTS OF MINE WARFARE	166	(102)
I Introduction	166	(4)
II The mine strategy in historical perspective	170	(45)
III Drafting rules for the mine trap: too long for too little	215	(32)
IV Mine warfare in international jurisprudence and doctrinal writings	247	(10)
V Progressing technology and static law: the missing interaction	257	(6)
VI Concluding remarks	263	(5)
3 RUSES AND PERFIDY AT SEA	268	(77)
I Introduction	268	(5)
II Of Q-ships and secret raiders: World War practices revisited	273	(24)
III The perennial debate on how to tell a ruse from perfidy	297	(22)
IV The legal theory at sea: the doctrinal discussion	319	(11)
V Chivalry in the electronic age: how far immaterial?	330	(9)
VI Concluding remarks	339	(6)
PART TWO Belligerent Interference with Neutral Property at Sea	345	(298)
4 THE NOTION OF MARITIME NEUTRALITY	345	(64)
I Introduction	345	(3)
II Uncertain origins and tardy evolution of the concept of neutrality	348	(18)
III The theory and practice of neutral conduct at sea in the twentieth century	366	(15)
IV New challenges, old values: collective security versus neutrality	381	(23)
V Concluding remarks	404	(5)
5 THE THEORY OF ABSOLUTE CONTRABAND	409	(117)
I Introduction	409	(4)
II The legal and factual parameters of the issue	413	(8)
III Arms sales and the delusion of international control	421	(21)
IV From neutrality to non-belligerency: the American paradigm	442	(25)
V Trading arms in the 1980s: between euphoria and reality	467	(39)
VI The threshold of abstention: the law in the books	506	(6)
VII In search of positive law: the moral dimension	512	(7)
VIII Concluding remarks	519	(7)
6 PRIZE LAW REVISITED	526	(117)
I Introduction	526	(3)
II The belligerent right of visit and search	529	(46)
III The right to capture and the duty of initiating prize proceedings	575	(41)
IV Condemned at sea: the problem of destruction of merchant vessels	616	(23)
V Concluding remarks	639	(4)
GENERAL CONCLUSIONS	643	(8)
Selected bibliography	651	(20)
Index	671