is an area twinned with the emergence of international law as a concept in itself, and which
sees law and politics collide. The number of armed conflicts is equal only to the number of
methodological approaches used to describe them. Many violent encounters are well
known. The Kosovo Crisis in 1999 and the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 spring easily to
the minds of most scholars and academics, and gain extensive coverage in this text. Other …