TY - BOOK AU - Beer,Yishai TI - Military professionalism and humanitarian law : the struggle to reduce the hazards of war SN - 9780190881177 AV - KZ6396 U1 - 341.67 23 PY - 2018/// CY - London PB - Oxford University Press KW - War (International law) KW - Self-defense (International law) KW - Just war doctrine KW - Humanitarian law N1 - Previously issued in print: 2018; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - This work challenges the unacceptable gap between the positive rules of the international law governing armed hostilities and actual state practice. It discusses reducing the human suffering caused by this reality. The text offers a new paradigm based on reality that may elevate the humanitarian threshold by replacing the currently problematic imperatives imposed upon militaries with professionally-based, attainable requirements UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190881146.001.0001 ER -