Modern Aspects Of The Laws Of Naval Warfare And Maritime Neutrality

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ISBN: 9780710305893 | 0710305893
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 1/11/1998

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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.

Abbreviations

(3)

Preface

xiv

Introduction

(34)

PART ONE Means and Methods of Naval Warfare

(310)

1 THE LEGALITY OF WAR ZONES

(131)

I Introduction

(4)

II The record of lawlessness: from the Lusitania to the Iranian Airbus

(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

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Modern Aspects Of The Laws Of Naval Warfare And Maritime Neutrality

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