Deadly Metal Rain: The Legality of Flechette Weapons in International Law
A Reappraisal Following Israel’s Use of Flechettes in the Gaza Strip (2001-2009)
Biographical note
Eitan Barak, assistant professor at the Department of International Relations, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has lectured and published extensively on Arms Control and Disarmament, the Law of Weaponry, Security Regimes and Israel's Defence Policy. His latest publications include: None to be Trusted: Israel's Use of Cluster Munitions in the Second Lebanon War and the Case for the Convention on Cluster Munitions (2010) and Doomed to be Violated? The U.S.-Israeli Clandestine End-User Agreement and the Second Lebanon War: Lessons for the Convention on Cluster Munitions (2009).
Readership
All those interested in international humanitarian law, human rights law, the Law of Weaponry, the Israeli Supreme Court's attitude to the Occupied Territories and military actions, political scientists and military analysts.
Table of contents
Excerpt of table of contents:
Acknowledgments; List of Cases; List of Treaties; List of Abbreviations; List of Illustrations and Maps;
Introduction
Part I. Flechette Weapons: Factual and Legal Background
1. The weapon's Features and History
2. From Intense Controversy to Oblivion:The International Community’s Attempts to Ban Flechettes
3. Concluding Remarks
Part II: Flechette Weapons: The Israeli Case
4. Israel’s Policy
5. The Internal Legal Battle
6. Concluding Remarks
Part III: Old Arguments, Fresh Victims and New Findings: The Legality of Flechette Weapons under International Customary Law—A Reappraisal
7. Flechettes and the Principle Prohibiting Unnecessary Suffering
8. Flechettes and the Principle of Distinction
Summary and Conclusions; Sources and Works Cited; Index.
Acknowledgments; List of Cases; List of Treaties; List of Abbreviations; List of Illustrations and Maps;
Introduction
Part I. Flechette Weapons: Factual and Legal Background
1. The weapon's Features and History
2. From Intense Controversy to Oblivion:The International Community’s Attempts to Ban Flechettes
3. Concluding Remarks
Part II: Flechette Weapons: The Israeli Case
4. Israel’s Policy
5. The Internal Legal Battle
6. Concluding Remarks
Part III: Old Arguments, Fresh Victims and New Findings: The Legality of Flechette Weapons under International Customary Law—A Reappraisal
7. Flechettes and the Principle Prohibiting Unnecessary Suffering
8. Flechettes and the Principle of Distinction
Summary and Conclusions; Sources and Works Cited; Index.
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