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Author:   Giovanni Cavaggion
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
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9783032231079

ISBN 10:   3032231078
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   16 May 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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1. Introduction.- ITALY.- 2. The ‘Pacifist Principle’ and the ‘Use of Force’ in the Italian Constitution.- 3. From “Vapid Pacifism” to “Aggressive Pacifism”. Themes, Languages, Organisational Forms of Pacifist Culture from the Post-War Period to the End of the Short Century.- 4. The Pacifist Principles of Conscientious Objection.- 5. Italian Scientists for Nuclear Arms Control in the Cold War: A Concise Testimony.- 6. The Tension of the Italian Constitutional Pacifist Principle in the Wake of the War in Ukraine.- JAPAN.- 7. Six Faces of Article 9: Japan’s Constitutional Pacifism and the World Order.- 8. E. H. Norman, C. L. Kades and the “Feudal Remnants” in Postwar Japan.- 9. Whither Pacifism in Cold War Japan? An Interpretive Path (1947-1990).- 10. Japanese Rearmament and the Constitution: A Misalignment.- 11. The “Pacifist Integralism” Myth: Japan’s Evolving National Security Approach Since the 1992 Peacekeeping Law and the Japan Socialist Party’s Narrative and Political Shift.- 12. The Tragic Demise of Japan’s Constitutional War Constraints.- THE COMPARATIVE AND TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE.- 13. The Constitutions of Japan, Italy and Germany Reject War: and the Current Non-Wars?.- 14. Umberto Campagnolo, the European Society of Culture and the Atomic Threat: A Peace Proposal from Intellectuals during the Cold War.- 15. War and Peace in Poland’s Constitutional Framework: Past and Present.- 16. The Pacifist Principle in Germany: Between Established Constitutional Constants and Unprecedented Military Expansionism.- 17. Pacifist Clauses, Euro-Atlantic Integration Clauses and Neutrality in the Constitutions of the Former Soviet Republics of Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova.- THE PHILOSOPHICAL AND POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE.- 18. Contingent or Principled? On the Philosophical Distinctiveness of Pacifism.- 19. Political Philosophy and the Problem of War: Mapping the Battlefield.- 20. Democracies at Peace (or at War)? The Rise and Fall of the Democratic Peace Theory.

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Giovanni Cavaggion is Associate Professor of Constitutional and Public Law at the University of Milan, where he teaches Constitutional Law, Public Law and European Values and Cultural Rights. He authored the books Diritti culturali e modello costituzionale di integrazione(Turin, 2018), La formazione del Governo. Aspetti e problemi tra quadro costituzionale e nuove prassi (Turin, 2020), and I diritti della maggioranza nel costituzionalismo contemporaneo. Possibili derive illiberali della difesa dell'identità nazionale(Turin, 2025), as well as over 50 other articles and book chapters with national and international publishers. He is the coordinator of the Jean Monnet project “European Values and Cultural Identities: Constitutional Challenges of the Promotion of the ‘European Way of Life’” (EU-VALUE) and the principal investigator of the SEED project “The ‘pacifist principle’ in the Italian and Japanese Constitutions in the wake of the war in Ukraine” (PEACE-ITA-JPN). His research interests include, among other things, the multicultural society, the protection of fundamental rights, multilevel constitutionalism, the European integration process, the fundamental values and principles of the European constitutional tradition.

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