[Boyd van Dijk is a McKenzie Fellow at the University of Melbourne.] The paradox of writing a book about the laws of war is that you never wish it to become timely. Today, however, with the ongoing brutality in Ukraine and Yemen, we are going through a dark time again. The Geneva Conventions are hitting the headlines every day. The study of...
[Boyd van Dijk is a doctoral candidate at the European University Institute and a GTA at the War Studies Department of King’s College, London. He holds degrees in History and Political Science from the University of Amsterdam and Columbia University. He is currently working on a new international history of the Geneva Conventions of 1949. His first post can be...
[Boyd van Dijk is a doctoral candidate at the European University Institute and a GTA at the War Studies Department of King’s College, London. He holds degrees in History and Political Science from the University of Amsterdam and Columbia University. He is currently working on a new international history of the Geneva Conventions of 1949.] Fifteen years ago, the longest war in...