A century of anarchy? : war, normativity, and the birth of modern international order / Hendrik Simon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simon, Hendrik, author.

Series:

History and theory of international law.

Oxford scholarship online.

The history and theory of international law

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War (International law)--History--19th century.

War (International law).

Just war doctrine--History--19th century.

Just war doctrine.

Politics and war--History--19th century.

Politics and war.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 392 pages.) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024.

Summary:

In 'A Century of Anarchy?', Simon challenges the German Sonderweg understanding of the nineteenth century and deconstructs the myth of the 'free right to go to war', drawing on political and normative discourses to outline a genealogy of modern war justifications.

Contents:

Setting the scene

1. Introduction : a century of anarchy, a right to war?

2.Thesis and antithesis: why states justify war

Part 1. Justifying war in the nineteenth century: a European discourse

3. On threshold of modernity: from revolutionizing to reordering war

4. Birth of an international order

5. Between might and right: justified wars and multiple normativities

6. The promise of 'peace through law' in the shadow of war

Part 2. Emergence of a myth: a German Sonderweg?

7. Recht zum krieg: a clausewitzian tradition

8. A hegemonic discourse? On mainstream(s) and myth(s)

9. Antinomianism: The Kaiserreich's politics of justifying war

10. Old order, new order: Historiography between anarchy and progress

Conclusion

11. War, normativity, and the birth of modern international order.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 18, 2024).

ISBN:

9780191945663 (electronic book)

0-19-266797-1

OCLC:

1417607450