Defending humanity : when force is justified and why / George P. Fletcher & Jens David Ohlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fletcher, George P.

Contributor:

Ohlin, Jens David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War.

War--Causes.

Intervention (International law).

Preemptive attack (Military science).

Security, International.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New : YorkOxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Defending Humanity, internationally acclaimed legal scholar George P. Fletcher and Jens David Ohlin, a leading expert on international criminal law, tackle one of the most important and controversial questions of our time: When is war justified? When a nation is attacked, few would deny that it has the right to respond with force. But what about preemptive and preventive wars, or crossing another state's border to stop genocide? Was Israel justified in initiating the Six Day War, and was NATO's intervention in Kosovo legal? What about the U.S. invasion of Iraq?. In their provocative new boo

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; 1 Murder among Nations; 2 How to Talk about Self-Defense; 3 A Theory of Legitimate Defense; 4 The Six Elements of Legitimate Defense; 5 Excusing International Aggression; 6 Humanitarian Intervention; 7 Preemptive and Preventive Wars; 8 The Collective Dimension of War; Conclusion; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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ISBN:

1-281-16258-2

9786611162580

0-19-804035-0

OCLC:

476241071