Academic

Eisikovits on Military Proportionality

By Lawrence Solum

Nir Eisikovits (Suffolk University- CAS) has posted Proportionality and Self Interest (Human Rights Review, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

This paper offers a justification of the principle of military proportionality that is based in considerations of self-interest. By offering such a justification, I hope to vindicate the principle on the basis of the least controversial argument available. The war between Israel and Hezbollah in the summer of 2006 is used as a case study. Part 1 surveys recent work on military proportionality and suggests that the importance of this principle has increased in the age of asymmetrical warfare. Part 2 considers and rejects the traditional realist concerns about proportionality. Part 3 offers a realist rationale for adhering to the principle.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on April 24, 2009 (boomark / email).