TY - BOOK AU - Hull,Isabel V. TI - A Scrap of Paper: Breaking and Making International Law during the Great War SN - 9780801470653 AV - KZ6795.W67 H85 2014eb U1 - 341.609/041 23 PY - 2014///] CY - Ithaca, NY PB - Cornell University Press KW - Humanitarian law KW - History KW - 20th century KW - War (International law) KW - World War, 1914-1918 KW - Law and legislation KW - Legal History & Studies KW - Military History KW - HISTORY / Military / World War I KW - bisacsh KW - Begian neutrality, submarine warfare, interstate relations, peace, war, military N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; 1. Prologue: What We Have Forgotten --; 2. Belgian Neutrality --; 3. The “Belgian Atrocities” and the Laws of War on Land --; 4. Occupation and the Treatment of Enemy Civilians --; 5. Great Britain and the Blockade --; 6. Breaking and Making International Law: The Blockade, 1915–1918 --; 7. Germany and New Weapons: Submarines, Zeppelins, Poison Gas, Flamethrowers --; 8. Unrestricted Submarine Warfare --; 9. Reprisals: Prisoners of War and Allied Aerial Bombardment --; 10. Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - In A Scrap of Paper, Isabel V. Hull compares wartime decision making in Germany, Great Britain, and France, weighing the impact of legal considerations in each. She demonstrates how differences in state structures and legal traditions shaped the way the three belligerents fought the war.Hull focuses on seven cases: Belgian neutrality, the land war in the west, the occupation of enemy territory, the blockade, unrestricted submarine warfare, the introduction of new weaponry, and reprisals. A Scrap of Paper reconstructs the debates over military decision-making and clarifies the role law played—where it constrained action, where it was manipulated, where it was ignored, and how it developed in combat—in each case. A Scrap of Paper is a passionate defense of the role that the law must play to govern interstate relations in both peace and war UR - https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801470653 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801470653 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801470653/original ER -