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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Pablo Kalmanovitz (Research Professor, Research Professor, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE))Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.480kg ISBN: 9780198790259ISBN 10: 0198790252 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 14 September 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Political Theology, Ius Gentium, and Just War in Spanish Scholasticism 2: Hugo Grotius on Solemn War and the Difference Sovereignty Makes 3: Regular War and Resort to Force in the Enlightenment 4: Enlightenment Ideals of Limited Warfare 5: Humanizing War in the 19th CenturyReviewsKalmanovitz's superbly argued study covers and impressive wealth of material from Spanish scholasticism to nineteenth-century humanitarianism. There is no other study which puts the laws of war so competently at the heart of international thought. Kalmanovitz provides a fresh look on canonical authors, offering in the process new interpretations of theories of just war, solemn war, and regular war in intellectual history. * Peter Schroder, University College London * This book takes the study of the historical and theoretical foundations of the modern laws of war onto a new plane. Insightful, judicious, and learned, Kalmanovitz's study is now the indispensable starting point for understanding our current approach to regulating war. And it is essential for pondering whether the fears of our ancestors that drove regulation have been incurred-and their fondest hopes fulfilled. * Samuel Moyn, Yale University * Kalmanovitz painstakingly reconstructs the dilemmas confronted by influential figures in the development of the modern laws of war, and reveals their persistent entanglement within a politics of statecraft that legitimizes state violence. This is an exciting, rigorous, and original contribution that exposes the historical roots of contempotary predicaments faced by those who seek to humanize war through laws of war. * Catherine Lu, McGill University * By re-reading the literary tradition, Pablo Kalmanovitz shows how the balance between military necessity and humanity in the modern laws of war arose from the realization that sovereign statehood needs to be protected. The formalization of regular war appears both as a hypocritical veil over sovereign violence and an effort to open the way for prudential statesmanship. This is a sharp and intelligent historical analysis of the difficulties and paradoxes of responsible statesmanship and the limits of law in a violent world. * Martti Koskenniemi, University of Helsinki * Author InformationPablo Kalmanovitz is research professor at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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