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Description - The Law of Naval Warfare by Dale Stephens CSM and Matthew Stubbs

In a period of growing tensions within the maritime domain, this timely new book brings together a combination of academic and practical expertise to present an account of the critical areas of the law of naval warfare.

It provides a comprehensive, academically rigorous and practically relevant treatment of the law applicable to naval conflicts that will be of value to governments and their advisers, defence forces, academics, students and historians.

The extensive expert analysis of the key issues includes topics such as:

Interaction with peacetime law of the sea

Maritime zones

Targeting, distinction and deception

Submarine warfare

Legal status of merchant vessels and direct participation in hostilities by civilians

Blockade

Prize law

Non-International Armed Conflict at Sea

New technologies and non-traditional vessels

Hospital ships

Intelligence collection

Interaction with Australian domestic legal obligations

Environmental issues


Features

Comprehensive

Authoritative

Rigorous

Relevant

Topical

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