Abstract
This chapter describes Additional Protocols (APs) as complicated and fascinating instruments that encapsulate most major aspects of global politics, such as the Third World's struggle to legitimize national liberation conflict through international law. It discusses Western efforts to manage the end of formal decolonization while containing damage to their security, image, and alliances. It also highlights the shifting of Cold War politics and proxy warfare, as well as the correlated intensification of government repression and defense of the principle of nonintervention in Africa, Asia, eastern Europe, and Latin America. The chapter explains how tensions, interests, and demands all contentiously crystallized within the APs. It explains how the new rules for national liberation war and internal conflict contained within the APs constitute face-saving, contested international law.
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