Challenges to International Law in the 21st Century [3/4]
Since the 1940s, States have been guided on what is considered appropriate when faced with threats to international and domestic security. In the 21 st century however, the nature of war has shifted considerably; new threats in the form of non-state actors and advanced technology means state centric laws are no longer as pertinent. This four part blog discusses the various challenges international law is being faced with following the changes to warfare and security. The previous blogs referred to how both new actors in the field of war and asymmetrical warfare have become challenges to the principles of law. This post will look to how it is also the actions of states themselves which have placed a significant strain on international law. New weapons, particularly drones, have opened up both new avenues of warfare and challenges to international law. States have seized on drones with their radical separation of the body of the fighter and the fight itself; it has become, as ...