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Book SynopsisLooting and Rape in Wartime examines the causes of the hundred-year gap between the prohibition against wartime looting and that against rape, theorizing the conditions necessary for the emergence of a global prohibition regime in which a particular practice is not tolerated.
Trade Review"
Looting and Rape in Wartime represents a conscientious effort to trace the institutional approach to the serious issue of rape during armed conflict . . . [and] makes a valuable contribution to research on human rights laws and institutions." *
Perspectives on Politics *
"An overall excellent book." *
Choice *
"A brilliant book. Inal asks why pillage and rape were outlawed in treaty law in two very different historical periods, and why rape in particular was not outlawed until very recently-intriguing empirical questions that take the reader not only through the historiography of war law but also through a very systematic investigation of causal relations in regime development. Going beyond most comparative analyses, Inal offers a compelling explanation as to why such law was developed in certain periods." * Charli Carpenter, University of Massachusetts-Amherst *
Table of ContentsChapter 1. Prohibition Regimes
Chapter 2. The Prohibition of Pillage in War
Chapter 3. The (Non) Prohibition of Rape in War: The Hague Conventions
Chapter 4. The Prohibition of Rape in War: First Steps: The Geneva Conventions and the Additional Protocols
Chapter 5. The Prohibition of Rape in War: The Success: The Rome Statute
Chapter 6. Conclusions
Appendices
A: Treaties
B: Indicators of Legalization
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
