Kennedy Of War and Law

Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2736-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Kennedy, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Öffentlicher Dienst Wehrrecht, Soldaten- und Zivildienstrecht, Bundesfreiwilligendienst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: War Today 1

Chapter 1: War as a Legal Institution 13

The Political Context for War 13

Professional War 27

Law as the Landscape for War 33

Law and the Legitimacy of Military Operations 39

Chapter 2: The Historical Context: How Did We Get Here? 46

International Law before the Rise of Modern War and Statecraft 47

Law Meets Modern Warfare 56

Changes in Legal Thought: An Opening for Humanitarianism 64

International Institutions and the Rise of a Modern Law of Force 68

Legal Realism and the Transformation of the Law in War 83

Chapter 3: War by Law 99

Battle in the Shadow of Sharp Distinctions and Outsider Ethics: Traces of the Premodern Legal Order 100

Modern Law and Modern War: Problems of Strategy 111

Legal War and the Elusive Experience of Responsibility 141

Epilogue 165

Notes 173

Index 179

Über Autor(innen)

David Kennedy is Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law and Director of the European Law Research Center at Harvard Law School. He is the author of The Dark Sides of Virtue and coauthor of The Canon of American Legal Thought (both Princeton).