Why warriors should welcome laws of war
Lessons from a 17th-century thinker on preventing crimes against humanity
THIS IS A perilous moment for all who seek to regulate conflict with law. From Europe to the Middle East and the Horn of Africa, brutal acts by violent men are challenging the international order founded after 1945, in response to the horrors of industrialised, racialised world war.
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