Prohibiting plunder : how norms change / Wayne Sandholtz.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-326) and index.

International norm change -- Plunder and the spoils of victory -- Napoleonic plunder and the emergence of norms -- The International law activists : elaborating norms in the nineteenth century -- The Great War and the protection of art -- Nazi plunder : strengthening the rules -- Codifying norms : Nuremberg and the Hague -- War in the 1990s : crimes against cultural heritage -- Repercussions of Nazi plunder : internalizing international norms -- Baghdad and beyond -- Dynamics of international norm change.

'Prohibiting Plunder' traces and explains the emergence of international rules against wartime looting of cultural treasures, and explores how anti-plunder norms have developed over the past 200 years. The book covers highly topical events including the looting of thousands of antiquities from the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad.