{"product_id":"2940149077748","title":"Global Armed Conflict? The Threshold of Extraterritorial Non-International Armed Conflicts","description":"The law of armed conflict is structured around State-centric concepts of sovereignty and territory, and is designed for either inter-State conflicts or for purely internal armed conflicts. Today, conflicts such as the Israeli-Hezbollah war of 2006, the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan that has spilled over into Pakistan and the U.S. global armed conflict against Al Qaeda challenge this traditional State-centric structure of the law. As a result, there is considerable debate as to how such extraterritorial hostilities (i.e., those that cross State borders) should be characterized. This article focuses on the question of when hostilities with armed groups operating across State borders may be classified as an armed conflict, thereby affecting how force may be used and what rules apply for detention. Although the article concludes that extraterritorial conflicts may qualify as non-international armed conflicts, it suggests that to erase territorial boundaries from the equation entirely when establishing the existence of an armed conflict raises challenges to the structure of the law and some of its underlying purposes. In particular, the article discusses the obstacles in assessing the intensity requirement and identifying the parties to the conflict. The separate and contentious issue regarding the geographic boundaries of existing extraterritorial armed conflicts is also briefly examined.","brand":"ReadCycle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47084579913968,"sku":"2940149077748","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940149077748_p0.jpg?v=1763711739","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940149077748","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}