TY - BOOK AU - Kittrie,Orde F. TI - Lawfare: law as a weapon of war SN - 9780190263577 (hardback : alk. paper) AV - K 967 K62l 2016 U1 - 341.3 PY - 2016/// CY - Oxford, UK, New York, NY : PB - Oxford University Press KW - Government liability (International law) KW - Responsabilidad del Estado (Derecho internacional) KW - Actions and defenses KW - Political aspects KW - Acciones y defensas KW - Aspectos políticos KW - Public interest law KW - Derecho de interés público KW - Malicious prosecution KW - Enjuiciamiento malicioso KW - National security KW - Law and legislation KW - Seguridad nacional KW - Legislación KW - Arab-Israeli conflict KW - United States KW - Foreign relations KW - Estados Unidos KW - Relaciones exteriores KW - Lawfare (Transnational litigation for political purposes) N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-459) and index; A conceptual overview of lawfare's meaning, variety and power -- Lawfare waged by U.S. private sector and non-governmental organization attorneys -- The U.S. government's financial lawfare against Iran -- The Chinese government adopts and implements a lawfare strategy -- The Palestinian Authority's lawfare against Israel -- Palestinian NGOs and their allies wage lawfare against Israel -- Hamas battlefield lawfare against Israel -- Israeli offensive lawfare N2 - "International military interventions can be extremely costly in terms of monetary resources, logistical challenges, and possible soldier and civilian casualties, as well as the potential for catastrophic results to international relations and agreements. In one such example of these enormous potential costs, the US and UK wished to stop a Russian ship from delivering ammunition to the Assad regime in Syria in 2012. Intercepting or confronting a Russian ship in transit could have erupted into open conflict, so they sought an alternative, non-confrontational maneuver: instead of military intervention, the UK persuaded the ship's insurer, London's Standard Club, to withdraw the ship's insurance. This loss of insurance caused the ship to return to Russia, thus avoiding an international clash as well as the delivery of deadly weapons to Syria. This use of legal maneuvering in lieu of armed force is known as "lawfare" and is becoming a critical strategic platform. In Lawfare, author Orde Kittrie's draws on his experiences as a lawfare practitioner, US State Department attorney, and international law scholar in analyzing the theory and practice of the strategic leveraging of law as an increasingly powerful and effective weapon in the current global security landscape. Lawfare incorporates case studies of recent offensive and defensive lawfare by the United States, Iran, China, and by both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and includes dozens of examples of how lawfare has thus been waged and defended against. Kittrie notes that since private attorneys can play important and decisive roles in their nations' national security plans through their expertise in areas like financial law, maritime insurance law, cyber law, and telecommunications law, the full scope of lawfare's impact and possibilities are just starting to be understood. With international security becoming an ever complicated minefield of concerns and complications, understanding this alternative to armed force has never been more important"-- ER -