Star Wars e o direito internacional da guerra: a Estrela da Morte e os limites jurídicos das armas de destruição em massa.

Abstract

A constant concern on International Law, war has been suffering even more limitations on international relations history. Disarmament is currently one of the objectives pursued by the international organizations with the intention to avoid the use of violence on global order. The aim of this work is to bring to a reflection the Death Star, built with the capacity to destroy a planet and, from the fiction optics, to glimpse the rules of Humanitarian International Law about the limits of mass destruction weapons. The purpose was to scan international treaties and conventions to delimitate the concept of mass destruction weapon, and afterwards to know if Death Star could fit in this concept and if international law would be prepared to answer to the pretention of development of an instrument with such destructive potential. Besides the normative aspects, the International Humanitarian Law and Law of War was also observed, in order to analyze the nature of the armed conflicts, as well as its limits. The analysis show the existence of tools on International Law for the prevention against weapons such as the Death Star, in an attempt to avoid scientific developments in this sense.