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Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- References -- 2 The Problem of War -- Political Violence and Human Insecurity -- Types of Political Violence -- Understanding the Fury of War -- Foucault's Silent War -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 The Trouble with International Law -- Bourdieu's Fields of Law -- Laws of Political Violence -- Prohibition on Aggressive Armed Force -- International Humanitarian Law -- International Criminal Law -- Transnational Criminal Law -- Contesting the Political Violence of Law -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 The Tragedy of Human Rights -- Human Rights and the Modernist Project -- War and Human Rights -- Law and Human Rights -- Humanity and the Anthropocene -- Latour's Political Ecology -- Alternative Futures? -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Bibliography -- Index.

Overview of International Human Rights and War -- Concepts of War and International Human Rights -- Human Rights and the Just War Tradition -- Humanitarian Restraints in Early Modern Warfare: Law of Armed Conflict from Antiquity to the Great War -- Contemporary Humanitarian Intervention: Beyond Rules-Based International Order -- International Human Rights Law and States of Emergency.

Damien Rogers examines how the international community has responded to the challenge of controlling small arms and light weapons since the early 1990s. He focuses on the maturing relationships between particular actors of world affairs and identifies how arms brokers and users of these weapons are able to mitigate, resist or elude the intended effects of those responses.