The International Law of Occupation
Eyal Benvenisti

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

	Acknowledgments
	Abbreviations
1	Overview: The Phenomenon of Occupation	3
2	The Framework of the Law of Occupation	7
	Article 43 of the Hague Regulations: A Profile of the Occupant's Role	7
	The Concept of Occupation According to Article 43: Past and Present	26
3	Occupations during and after World War I: Early Challenges to the Traditional Law of Occupation	32
	The German Occupation of Belgium, 1914-1918	32
	The Armistice Occupation of the Rhineland	48
4	The Second Phase: The Law of Occupation in the Wake of World War II	59
	Occupations by the Axis Powers	60
	Occupations by the Soviet Union, 1939-1940	67
	The Relevance of the Axis and Soviet Occupations to the Law of Occupation: The Status of Unlawful Occupations	68
	Allied Occupations during World War II	72
	The Law of Occupation in the Wake of World War II: The Termination of the Normative Force of the Hague Regulations	96
	The Fourth Geneva Convention and the Status of the Law of Occupation in 1949	98
5	The Israeli Occupation of the Golan Heights, the West Bank, Gaza, and Sinai	107
	The applicability of the Law of Occupation to the Israel-Occupied Territories: Theory and Practice	108
	Integration of the Territories with Israel	123
	Long-Term Occupations and the Law of Occupation	144
6	Occupations since the 1970s and Recent International Prescriptions	149
	Attempts to Annex Adjacent Regions: Kuwait, Western Sahara, and East Timor	150
	Assisting an Indigenous Government: Afghanistan, Kampuchea (Cambodia), Grenada, and Panama	159
	Self-Determination for Occupied Regions verus the Territorial Integrity of the Occupied State: Bangladesh and Northern Cyprus	173
	Limited-Purpose Occupations: The Coalition Occupation of Southern and Northern Iraq and the Israeli Occupation of Southern Lebanon	181
	The Law of Occupation That Emerges from Recent Occupations	182
	The Law of Occupation in Contemporary International Instruments	184
	Conclusion	189
7	Enforcement of the Law of Occupation on the Occupant: Existing Institutions	191
	Enforcement through Adjudication	192
	Enforcement through Protecting Powers	204
	Enforcement through Other International Processes	207
8	Conclusion: The Contemporary Law of Occupation	209
	Major Developments That Have Influenced the Law of Occupation	209
	The Response to Contemporary Challenges	212
	Monitoring the Occupants and Enforcing the Law	216
	Bibliography	217
	Table of Cases	225
	Index	233

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