Reviews and Awards
"A comprehensive and realistic treatise...An important contribution."--CHOICE
"This is an important book, which the specialists in this subject will refer to for decades to come."--Sunday Telegraph
"[An] ambitious, highly significant and courageous new book...Interdisciplinary in approach, it is an important text for teachers, students and the practitioners of international relations alike...Its conclusions, so relevant to the latter part of this century, must not be ignored."--The Irish Times
"[A] wide-ranging treatise."--Times Higher Education Supplement
"An important book that should attract the attention of policy-making and activist circles in addition to the usual scholarly ones."--American Historical Review
"Geoffrey Best traces with impressive analysis and citiation the general development of an international law of war."-- Law and History Review