Corporate War Profiteering and International Law

This book re-centres corporate war profiteering in the analysis of contemporary warfare, interrogating international law’s role in sustaining this dynamic. Despite the intuitive centrality of profit to war, its urgency remains strikingly absent from legal discourse, a suspicious disinterest this work challenges head-on. It contends that international law serves dually as a coercive tool enabling profiteering and a deceptive veil obscuring it. This functionality stems from law’s systematic detachment from the reality of asymmetrical, tech-driven warfare in places like the DRC, Sudan, Palestine, Ukraine, and Myanmar. Such detachment persists via weak theoretical presumptions, reinforced by cognitive and disciplinary biases toward individualism, public/private divide and fragmentation. Through incisive alternative readings, the book unmasks power-laden manipulations of legal authority, offering a vital corrective for scholars of law, war economies, and critical theory.