This book offers a critical assessment of international humanitarian law by employing mainly the Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL), which encompass the critical, Marxist, gender, critical race and post-colonial theories. The book contains a materialist account of the historical development of the law in order to investigate its problematic foundations and reveal how the imperialist and capitalist tendencies shaped the content of this law. It discusses the history of exclusion of the Third World from the negotiations and application of the law. It underscores how the law...