- Law and religion in different cultural traditions
- Humanitarian rules in a community not yet made up of States
- The regulation of armed conflicts within and between medieval empires by “national”, “international” and natural law
- Pre-colonial African customary law
- Islamic rules of warfare: international, national or religious rules
- Grotius, Vitoria, Suarez, de Vattel and the concept of just war
- Vitoria and de las Casas and the conquest of the New World
- IHL in modern international law
- The concept of international armed conflict after the Peace of Westphalia
- IHL and the absolutist State
- IHL in the revolutionary wars
- IHL as part of nineteenth-century European public la
- The European origin of modern IHL
- Hegemony and equality of States
- IHL applicable to interventions
- IHL applicable in wars with non-European States and peoples
- IHL applicable in colonial wars
- The historical development of IHL as an indicator for the changing structure of contemporary international law
- Codification
- Universalization
- Origins and gradual fading of the distinction between international armed conflicts and non-international armed conflicts
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- Multilateralization
- Growing importance of non-State actors
- Individuals
- Peoples
- Insurgents
- Institutionalization
- The UN Charter as the constitution of the international community
- IHL in the post-Cold War world
- Tendency to blur the distinction between jus ad bellum and jus in bello
- Tendency for the distinction between international and non-international armed conflicts to fade
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- International law after 11 September 2001: a hegemonic international law?
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