Böcker av Christine (London School of Economics and Political Science) Chinkin

Thanks to extensive campaigning, women's experiences of conflict have finally been brought into UN decision-making about peace and security. This book celebrates this success, analyses how it is tempered by linguistic ambiguities and legal uncertainties, and sets out how the women, peace and security agenda fits into contemporary international law.

This book provides an introduction to international law as it relates to the use of force and to competing approaches of security that can be identified in the context of 'new wars'. It examines topics including weapons, human rights, gender and peacekeeping, using case studies from a number of recent conflicts.