Military necessity in international cultural heritage law
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Leiden ; Boston : Brill Nijhoff, 2022, International humanitarian law series ; 61
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DRAZEWSKA, Berenika, Military necessity in international cultural heritage law, Leiden ; Boston : Brill Nijhoff, 2022, International humanitarian law series ; 61 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/76300
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This book offers the first comprehensive scholarly analysis of the current meaning and scope of military necessity – a key concept in the international legal framework for the protection of cultural heritage during armed conflicts since the adoption of the 1954 Hague Convention. Academic discussions commonly view military necessity uniquely through the lens of international humanitarian or international criminal law. In her book, Berenika Drazewska presents a more comprehensive perspective, examining developments across various strands of international law arisen since 1954. This novel approach demonstrates how international cultural heritage law affords a particularly strict meaning to military necessity. As a result, the relative waiver will only be available to belligerents very rarely, in truly extraordinary circumstances. Drazewska’s Military Necessity in International Cultural Heritage Law engages a significant issue in this rapidly evolving field of international law, the inclusion of necessity in regulation of the protection of cultural heritage during armed conflict after 1945. Its very inclusion was viewed as a major concession, which is only multiplied because of the difficulties of its application on the ground. This thorny issue has come to the fore again with large-scale cultural losses inflicted during recent armed conflicts. Elegantly written and scholarly in its approach, this book places this question and possible answers to it within the broader sweep of international law and recent developments not only in international humanitarian law, but state responsibility, international criminal law and international criminal law. It offers a significant and timely reexamination and reconceptualization of this important topic.
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-- Introduction -- 1. The development of the treaty framework for the protection of cultural heritage -- 2. The concept and scope of military necessity -- 3. Military necessity within the framework for the protection of cultural heritage in armed conflicts -- 4. The impact of individual criminal responsibility for offences against cultural property on military necessity -- 5. Military necessity vis-à-vis the protection of cultural heritage in non-international armed conflicts -- 6. Military necessity and the responsibility of states -- 7. Lessons on necessity resulting from the interplay of environmental protection and armed conflict -- 8. Concluding remarks
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Published: 09 December 2021
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Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2016