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Author:   Lothar Brock (Senior Professor, Senior Professor, Goethe-University Frankfurt) ,  Hendrik Simon (Research Associate, Research Associate, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 3.70cm , Length: 22.50cm
Weight:   0.992kg
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9780198865308

ISBN 10:   0198865309
Pages:   560
Publication Date:   11 February 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1: Hendrik Simon and Lothar Brock: The Justification of War and International Order. From Past to Present Part I. Basic Theoretical Considerations: On War and Order(s) 2: Anthony Lang, Jr.: Politics, Ethics and History in Just War 3: Siddharth Mallavarapu: Imperialism, International Law and War: Enduring Legacies and Curious Entanglements Part II. The Early Modern War Discourse: A Process of Transformation? 4: Anuschka Tischer: Princes' Justifications of War in Early Modern Europe: the Constitution of an International Community by Communication 5: Arnulf Becker Lorca: The Legal Mechanics of Spanish Conquest: War and Peace in Early Colonial Peru 6: Benno Teschke: Capitalism, British Grand Strategy and the Peace Treaty of Utrecht: Towards A Historical Sociology of War- and Peacemaking in the Construction of International Order 7: Oliver Eberl: Kant's Rejection of Just War: International Order between Democratic Constitutionalism and Revolutionary Violence Part III. The 19th Century as the Birth Era of the Modern War Discourse 8: Hendrik Simon: Anarchy over Law? Towards a Genealogy of Modern War Justifications (1789-1918) 9: Lauren Benton: Protection Emergencies: Justifying Measures Short of War in the British Empire 10: Isabel V. Hull: The Great War and International Law: German Justifications of Prevention and Pre-emptive Self-Defence 11: Aimee Genell and Mustafa Aksakal: Salvation through War? The Ottoman Search for Sovereignty in 1914 12: Milo%s Vec: Juridification, Politicisation, and Circumvention of Law: (De-)Legitimising Chemical Warfare before and after Ypres, 1899-1925 Part IV. From the League to the UN: The Universe of Western International Legal Order Revealing its Self-Contradictions 13: B.S. Chimni: Peace through Law: Lessons from 1914 14: Thomas Hippler: Re-Ordering the World from the Skies? The Emergence and Justification of Aerial Warfare 15: Felix Lange: The Justificatory Potential of International Law. National Socialists' Dreams of African Colonies Part V. 'Democratic Wars' and the Post-Cold War International Order: Rise and Decline of the 'Liberal Peace' 16: Anna Geis and Wolfgang Wagner: 'What We Are Fighting For': Democracies' Justifications of Using Armed Force since the End of the Cold War 17: Michael Stohl: The War on Terror and the Law of War: Shaping International Order in the Context of Irregular Violence 18: Axel Heck and Gabi Schlag: 'We Are Going to War.' Narratives of Self-Defence & Responsibility in Afghanistan War Documentaries 19: Nina Wilén: Justifying Interventions - The Case of ECOWAS in Liberia 20: Beate Jahn: Humanitarian Intervention: Justifying War for a New International Order Part VI. Alternative Paths: Non-Western Perspectives on the Justification of War and International Order from Past to Present 21: Sohail H. Hashmi: The Islamic Law of War and Peace and the International Legal Order: Convergence or Dissonance? 22: Paul Robinson and Mikhail Antonov: In the Name of State Sovereignty? The Justification of War in Russian History and the Present 23: Manjiao Chi: China's Approach to the Use of Force: A Short Review of China's Changing Attitudes towards the Justification of Humanitarian Intervention Paty VII. International Rule of Law: Justifying, Contesting and Perpetuating the Use of Force 24: Chris Brown: Justified: Just War and the Ethics of Violence and World Order 25: Thilo Marauhn: How Many Deaths Can Art 2 (4) UN Charter Die? 26: B.S. Chimni: Justification and Critique: Humanitarianism and Imperialism over Time 27: Christopher Daase and Nicole Deitelhoff: The Justification and Critique of Coercion as World Order Politics An Attempt at a Synthesis 28: Lothar Brock and Hendrik Simon: Justifications of the Use of Force as Constitutive Elements of World Order - Points of Departure, Arrivals and Moving Destinations

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A good book makes you rethink. It alerts you to things you didn't know. This is what Justification definitely does ... The chapters are so rich and varied that any reader is bound to find new stories, new theorizations, new problems. * Wouter Werner, Voelkerrechtsblog * Various chapters lend voice to postcolonial critiques, and some push the boundaries of TWAIL to go beyond treating the colonised as mere detrimental recipients of the European justifications of war. * Parvathi Menon, Voelkerrechtsblog * There is much to say about the many ways in which Schmitt's enormously influential narrative is historically erroneous, and this volume contributes an important element to its takedown. * Claire Vergerio, Voelkerrechtsblog * [A] must-read for anyone interested in the history of war as a social phenomenon. * Mathias Albert, International Affairs * In this landmark volume, leading scholars from different fields explore the historical connections between justifications of war and the constitution of international order. The result is a rich and coherent account of how such justifications have enabled and constrained the use of force across different historical contexts while drawing on and reproducing wider normative orders in the process. Given its theoretical sophistication and vast historical scope, this volume is a major contribution not only to the history of international legal theory and practice, but to the study of international thought in general. * Jens Bartelson, Professor of Political Science, Lund University * Although the justification of war has been a core concern in political and legal discourse about international order since Antiquity, it is only in recent years that it has become a major object of study across the board of relevant historiographies. By assembling the work of a crack team of legal, diplomatic and political thought historians, this volume makes a significant contribution towards organizing a dialogue of disciplines around this key theme of international history. * Randall Lesaffer, KU Leuven and Tilburg University * This collection arrives during radical, global re-thinking. Just as structures of inequality, violence, and environmental destruction are being shaken, the authors expose a falsehood that has helped lead to these harms. Humanity has never accepted a free right to resort to war. Sophisticated law to prohibit armed conflict did not spring up in the mid-20th century. With this and other errors exposed, the book moves us toward renewal of the law of peace we so urgently need. * Mary Ellen O'Connell, Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law and Research Professor of International Dispute Resolution-Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame (USA) *

In this landmark volume, leading scholars from different fields explore the historical connections between justifications of war and the constitution of international order. The result is a rich and coherent account of how such justifications have enabled and constrained the use of force across different historical contexts while drawing on and reproducing wider normative orders in the process. Given its theoretical sophistication and vast historical scope, this volume is a major contribution not only to the history of international legal theory and practice, but to the study of international thought in general. * Jens Bartelson, Professor of Political Science, Lund University * Although the justification of war has been a core concern in political and legal discourse about international order since Antiquity, it is only in recent years that it has become a major object of study across the board of relevant historiographies. By assembling the work of a crack team of legal, diplomatic and political thought historians, this volume makes a significant contribution towards organizing a dialogue of disciplines around this key theme of international history. * Randall Lesaffer, KU Leuven and Tilburg University * This collection arrives during radical, global re-thinking. Just as structures of inequality, violence, and environmental destruction are being shaken, the authors expose a falsehood that has helped lead to these harms. Humanity has never accepted a free right to resort to war. Sophisticated law to prohibit armed conflict did not spring up in the mid-20th century. With this and other errors exposed, the book moves us toward renewal of the law of peace we so urgently need. * Mary Ellen O'Connell, Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law and Research Professor of International Dispute Resolution-Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame (USA) *

This collection arrives during radical, global re-thinking. Just as structures of inequality, violence, and environmental destruction are being shaken, the authors expose a falsehood that has helped lead to these harms. Humanity has never accepted a free right to resort to war. Sophisticated law to prohibit armed conflict did not spring up in the mid-20th century. With this and other errors exposed, the book moves us toward renewal of the law of peace we so urgently need. * Mary Ellen O'Connell, Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law and Research Professor of International Dispute Resolution-Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame (USA) * Although the justification of war has been a core concern in political and legal discourse about international order since Antiquity, it is only in recent years that it has become a major object of study across the board of relevant historiographies. By assembling the work of a crack team of legal, diplomatic and political thought historians, this volume makes a significant contribution towards organizing a dialogue of disciplines around this key theme of international history. * Randall Lesaffer, KU Leuven and Tilburg University * In this landmark volume, leading scholars from different fields explore the historical connections between justifications of war and the constitution of international order. The result is a rich and coherent account of how such justifications have enabled and constrained the use of force across different historical contexts while drawing on and reproducing wider normative orders in the process. Given its theoretical sophistication and vast historical scope, this volume is a major contribution not only to the history of international legal theory and practice, but to the study of international thought in general. * Jens Bartelson, Professor of Political Science, Lund University *

Author Information

Lothar Brock is Senior Professor of Political Science at Goethe University Frankfurt and at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. He is co-author of Fragile States: Violence and the Failure of Intervention (Polity, 2012) and co-editor of Democratic Wars: Looking at the Dark Side of Democratic Peace (Palgrave, 2006). Hendrik Simon is Lecturer at Goethe University Frankfurt and Research Associate at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. He was Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Advanced International Theory/University of Sussex (2017), at the University of Vienna (2018, 2016), at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Frankfurt (2015-16) and at the Cluster of Excellence 'Normative Orders' (2011-12).

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