The limitations of the law of armed conflicts : : new means and methods of warfare : essays in memory of Rosario Domínguez Matés / / edited by Pablo Antonio Fernández Sánchez.

• Superior document: Human Rights and Humanitarian Law E-Books Online, Collection 2022.
• TeilnehmendeR: Fernández Sánchez, Pablo Antonio,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill Nijhoff,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Human Rights and Humanitarian Law E-Books Online, Collection 2022.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (437 pages)
• Notes: The new means and methods of warfare challenge the law of armed conflict. For this reason, a deep legal and operational study was required to detect the existing gaps and deregulation.

In the law of armed conflicts, one of the elements that has changed the most has been the means and methods of warfare. Yet there are few legal answers for the many questions these changes pose. This volume, therefore, seeks to identify the limitations of current international law on this double plane, the means and methods of combat, and to offer insights about how to address them. Topics include the use of nuclear energy, which without being a weapon, can have the same effect as one, chemical and biological weapons, autonomous artificial intelligence weapons, and biobots. Similarly, fake news, the hostile use of cyberspace, lawfare, the use of big data, terrorism as a combat method, premeditated poisoning, sexual humiliation, the impact of such news on the armed forces and the reorganization needed to face the new scenarios are all situations not contemplated in classical law and which require new legal and operational responses.

Table of Contents

Preface -- Notes on Contributors -- Biographical Note: Professor Rosario Domínguez Matés / Nuria Arenas Hidalgo and Rosa Giles Carnero -- part 1 -- New Means of Warfare, More Problems Added to the Classical Problems -- 1 Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Energy in New Armed Conflicts Unfinished Regulation / Pablo Antonio Fernández-Sánchez -- 2 The Use of Chemical Weapons and Toxic Substances in Contemporary Conflictual Framework / Fernando Villena -- 3 Biological Weapons and Their Incompatibility with ihl / Ana Cristina Gallego-Hernández -- 4 Autonomous Weapons and International Responsibility / Borja Montes Toscano -- 5 Armed Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in New Armed Conflicts / Pilar Pozo Serrano -- 6 The New Weapons in Naval Warfare Unmanned Maritime Systems / Noelia Arjona Hernández -- 7 Artificial Intelligence in Modern War Beyond Killer Robots / Ángel Gómez de Ágreda -- 8 The European Union before the Regulation of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (Between Utopia and Necessity) / Victoriano Gallego Arce -- 9 The Use of Biobots as a Means of Warfare in the New Armed Conflicts / Miguel Ángel Martín López -- part 2 -- New Methods of Warfare, New International Legal Lagoons -- 10 The Limits of Fake News as Methods of Warfare / Chema Suárez-Serrano -- 11 The Hostile Use of Cyberspace and Its Implications as Means of Warfare A ‘Stuxnetization’ of Global Relations? / Rafael Rodríguez Prieto -- 12 Lawfare as a New Method of Warfare / Jonatán Cruz Ángeles -- 13 Big Data and the New Armed Conflicts / Víctor Luis Gutiérrez Castillo -- 14 Terrorism and Counterterrorism in New Asymmetric and Hybrid Warfare Lessons after Afghanistan / Consuelo Ramón Chornet -- 15 Poisoning of Food as a Method of Warfare / Adriana Fillol Mazo -- 16 Sexual Violence Against Men as a Method of Warfare in Contemporary Conflicts Some Lessons Learned / Magdalena M. Martín Martínez -- 17 New Methods (and Means) of Warfare and Their Impact on the Structure of the Armed Forces -- Pedro Sánchez Herráez -- 18 Armies towards the 2035 Horizon Concerning New Threats, Technology and Urban Scenarios (The Example of the Actions of the Spanish Army) / Miguel Ballenilla García de Gamarra -- Index.