How to wage war legally: one big country, it seems, is breaking most of the rules these days.(War Law: Understanding International Law and Armed Conflict)(Book review) From: Literary Review of Canada | Date: March 1, 2006| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2006 Literary Review of Canada, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

War Law: Understanding International Law and Armed Conflict Michael Byers Douglas and McIntyre 214 pages, hardcover ISBN 1553651510

Prior to the 1990s and the re-emergence of the crime of genocide in Bosnia and Rwanda, the arcane world of international law was a subject few non-experts knew or cared about. The Iron Curtain of the Cold War and the threat of mutual nuclear devastation held the world's superpowers and their respective satellites in check. It became fashionable among certain Cold Warriors to claim that the field did not actually exist--that it was, in other words, ...

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