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Making The Case For Conflict Bifurcation In Afghanistan: Transnational Armed Conflict, Al Qaida, And The Limits Of Associated Militia Concept, Geoffrey S. Corn
Making The Case For Conflict Bifurcation In Afghanistan: Transnational Armed Conflict, Al Qaida, And The Limits Of Associated Militia Concept, Geoffrey S. Corn
International Law Studies
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Exceptional Engagement: Protocol I And A World United Against Terrorism, Michael A. Newton
Exceptional Engagement: Protocol I And A World United Against Terrorism, Michael A. Newton
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
This article challenges the prevailing view that U.S. "exceptionalism" provides the strongest narrative for the U.S. rejection of Additional Protocol I to the 1949 Geneva Conventions. The United States chose not to adopt the Protocol in the face of intensive international criticism because of its policy conclusions that the text contained overly expansive provisions resulting from politicized pressure to accord protection to terrorists who elected to conduct hostile military operations outside the established legal framework. The United States concluded that the commingling of the regime criminalizing terrorist acts with the jus in bello rules of humanitarian law would be untenable …