Status of Forces: Criminal Jurisdiction over Military Personnel Abroad

This book brings into focus the legal status of armed forces on foreign territory within, inter alia, the context of multi-national exercises and a variety of so-called crisis management operations. When it comes to criminal offences committed by military

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Status of Forces: Criminal Jurisdiction over Military Personnel Abroad

Joop Voetelink

Status of Forces: Criminal Jurisdiction over Military Personnel Abroad

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Joop Voetelink Faculty of Military Science Netherlands Defence Academy Breda The Netherlands

Translated by Marielle Matthee

ISBN 978-94-6265-056-5 ISBN 978-94-6265-057-2  (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-6265-057-2 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015931533 Published by t.m.c. asser press, The Hague, The Netherlands www.asserpress.nl Produced and distributed for t.m.c. asser press by Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg © t.m.c. asser press and the author 2015 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Printed on acid-free paper Springer Science+Business Media B.V. Dordrecht is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Contents

1 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.1 An Example: Afghanistan, 2001–2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.2 Status of Forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2.1 Status of Forces vis-à-vis Military Operations and International Military Cooperation. . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2.2 Criminal Jurisdiction and Immunity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.3 Structure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.3.1 General. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.3.2 Part I: Historical Analysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1.3.3 Part II: International Law Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 1.3.4 Part III: Military Operational Law Perspective . . . . . . . 8 1.4 Terminology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.4.1 Consent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.4.2 Internal Order and Discipline. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 1.4.3 Crisis Management Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 1.4.4 Jurisdiction and Immunity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 1.4.5 SOFAs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 1.4.6 Definition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 References. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .