Politics & Society
Crimes against humanity
How the US stretches international and domestic laws to wage war on non-state Islamist forces, and how those forces invoke Islamic law to justify their own actions
Published 9 September 2016
For this episode of the Up Close podcast, we speak with international law expert Professor Naz Modirzadeh and political scientist Associate Professor Andrew March about how the United States and other governments contort and stretch international and domestic laws to accommodate the waging of war on non-state Islamist forces.
Politics & Society
Crimes against humanity
We also explore how Islamist forces do their own twisting of Islamic law to justify their actions.
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