This book brings together scholars from various fields, including law, history, sociology and international relations to examine this historization of international humanitarian law.

1: Introduction; 2: PART ONE; 3: Chapter 1 - Introduction; 4: Chapter 2 - Historicising International Criminal Trials within the Modernist Project; 5: Chapter 3 - Engaging History in the Legal Protection of Cultural Heritage in War and Peace; 6: Chapter 4 - From Spies to International Criminals: The Influence of the Austro-Hungarian Counter Espionage Service on the International Criminal Police Commission; 7: Chapter 5 - Authority, Legitimacy and Military Violence: De Facto Combatant Privilege of Non-State Armed Groups through Amnesty; 8: PART TWO; 9: Chapter 1 - Introduction: Evolution of Rules and Concepts in International Humanitarian Law: Navigating through Legal Gaps and Fault-lines; 10: Chapter 2 - A hidden fault-line: How international actors engage with IHL's principle of distinction; 11: Chapter 3 - Restraint in bello: Some thoughts on reciprocity and humanity; 12: Chapter 4 - Judging the past - international humanitarian law and the Luftwaffe aerial operations during the invasion of Poland in 1939; 13: PART THREE; 14: Chapter 1 - Introduction: Emotions and the law; 15: Chapter 2 - To feel or not to feel? Emotions and international humanitarian law To feel or not to feel? Emotions and international humanitarian law; 16: Chapter 3 - To Kill or Not to Kill as a Social Question; 17: Chapter 4 - War of Wor(l)ds - Clashing Narratives and Interpretations of I(H)L in the Intractable Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; 18: PART FOUR; 19: Introduction: The lawyer as an actor in history and society; 20: Chapter 2 - Lemkin on vandalism and the protection of cultural works and historical monuments during armed conflict; 21: Chapter 3 - Forgotten, but nevertheless relevant! Gustave Moynier's attempts to punish violations of the laws of war 1870-1916; 22: Chapter 4 - The feminist origins of the Swedish Red Cross; 23: Index