Lawfare : new trajectories in law
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Lawfare : new trajectories in law
（New trajectories in law / series editors, Adam Gearey, Colin Perrin）（Routledge focus）
Routledge, 2023
- hbk.
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"Routledge focus"-- On cover
Bibliography: p. [94]-115
Includes index
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Description
Develops a new conceptualisation of lawfare that recognises the polysemantic nature of the term.
Illustrates the multifaceted character of lawfare with a wide range of historical and contemporary cases from across the globe, and analyses the implications of actors pursuing political objectives through legal means.
Will appeal to scholars and students of law, international relations, political science, anthropology, and sociology.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
2 Geopolitical lawfare: legal instruments as weapons of war
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Why is geopolitical lawfare a popular tool?
2.3 Great powers' attitudes and strategies towards geopolitical lawfare
2.3.1 The US vis-a-vis geopolitical lawfare
2.3.2 Lawfare and the People's Republic of China
2.3.3 The Russian Federation and lawfare
2.4 Geopolitical lawfare methods in the international arena
2.4.1 Sanctions
2.4.2 Lawfare through intergovernmental organisations
2.4.3 Discursive lawfare
2.5 Conclusion
3 Domestic lawfare
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Related concepts
3.2.1 Judicialisation of politics
3.2.2 Power, law, and the state of exception
3.3 The effects of domestic lawfare on liberal democratic regimes
3.4 Applications of domestic lawfare
3.4.1 Soft domestic lawfare in Hungary and Poland?
3.4.2 Domestic lawfare in Latin America
3.5 Conclusion
4 Lawfare and territorial conflicts
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Rule of law in territorial conflicts
4.3 The legal dispossession of Native Americans
4.3.1 Situation
4.3.2 Analysis
4.3.3 Implications
4.4 State lawfare in Northern Ireland
4.4.1 Situation
4.4.2 Analysis
4.4.3 Implications
4.5 State lawfare in the Basque Country
4.5.1 Situation
4.5.2 Analysis
4.5.3 Implications
4.6 State lawfare in Catalonia
4.6.1 Situation
4.6.2 Analysis
4.6.3 Implications
4.7 Conclusion
5 Asymmetric lawfare: a weapon of the weak
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Civil society lawfare
5.3 Civil society lawfare: cases
5.3.1 The Ogoni case
5.3.2 The Dakota Access Pipeline protests
5.4 Lawfare from 'weak' governmental actors
5.5 Conclusion
6 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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