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The Justification of War and International Order: From Past to Present

The Justification of War and International Order: From Past to Present

Author: Lothar Brock
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198865308
Published In: February 2021
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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The history of war is also a history of its justification. The contributions to this book argue that the justification of war rarely happens as empty propaganda. While it is directed at mobilizing support and reducing resistance, it is not purely instrumental. Rather, the justification of force is part of an incessant struggle over what is to count as justifiable behaviour in a given historical constellation of power, interests, and norms. This way, the justification of specific wars interacts with international order as a normative frame of reference for dealing with conflict. The justification of war shapes this order, and is being shaped by it. As the justification of specific wars entails a critique of war in general, the use of force in international relations has always been accompanied by political and scholarly discourses on its appropriateness. In much of the pertinent literature the dominating focus is on theoretical or conceptual debates as a mirror of how international normative orders evolve. In contrast, the focus of the present volume is on theory and political practice as sources for the re- and de-construction of the way in which the justification of war and international order interact. With contributions from international law, history, and international relations, and from Western and non-Western perspectives, this book offers a unique collection of papers exploring the continuities and changes in war discourses as they respond to and shape normative orders from early modern times to the present.

Introduction

1: The Justification of War and International Order. From Past to Present

Hendrik Simon and Lothar Brock

Part I. Basic Theoretical Considerations: On War and Order(s)

2: Politics, Ethics and History in Just War

Anthony Lang, Jr.

3: Imperialism, International Law and War: Enduring Legacies and Curious Entanglements

Siddharth Mallavarapu

Part II. The Early Modern War Discourse: A Process of Transformation?

4: Princes' Justifications of War in Early Modern Europe: the Constitution of an International Community by Communication

Anuschka Tischer

5: The Legal Mechanics of Spanish Conquest: War and Peace in Early Colonial Peru

Arnulf Becker Lorca

6: Capitalism, British Grand Strategy and the Peace Treaty of Utrecht: Towards A Historical Sociology of War- and Peacemaking in the Construction of International Order

Benno Teschke

7: Kant's Rejection of Just War: International Order between Democratic Constitutionalism and Revolutionary Violence

Oliver Eberl

Part III. The 19th Century as the Birth Era of the Modern War Discourse

8: Anarchy over Law? Towards a Genealogy of Modern War Justifications (1789-1918)

Hendrik Simon

9: Protection Emergencies: Justifying Measures Short of War in the British Empire

Lauren Benton

10: The Great War and International Law: German Justifications of Prevention and Pre-emptive Self-Defence

Isabel V. Hull

11: Salvation through War? The Ottoman Search for Sovereignty in 1914

Aimee Genell and Mustafa Aksakal

12: Juridification, Politicisation, and Circumvention of Law: (De-)Legitimising Chemical Warfare before and after Ypres, 1899-1925

Miloš Vec

Part IV. From the League to the UN: The Universe of Western International Legal Order Revealing its Self-Contradictions

13: Peace through Law: Lessons from 1914

B.S. Chimni

14: Re-Ordering the World from the Skies? The Emergence and Justification of Aerial Warfare

Thomas Hippler

15: The Justificatory Potential of International Law. National Socialists' Dreams of African Colonies

Felix Lange

Part V. 'Democratic Wars' and the Post-Cold War International Order: Rise and Decline of the 'Liberal Peace'

16: 'What We Are Fighting For': Democracies' Justifications of Using Armed Force since the End of the Cold War

Anna Geis and Wolfgang Wagner

17: The War on Terror and the Law of War: Shaping International Order in the Context of Irregular Violence

Michael Stohl

18: 'We Are Going to War.' Narratives of Self-Defence & Responsibility in Afghanistan War Documentaries

Axel Heck and Gabi Schlag

19: Justifying Interventions - The Case of ECOWAS in Liberia

Nina Wilén

20: Humanitarian Intervention: Justifying War for a New International Order

Beate Jahn

Part VI. Alternative Paths: Non-Western Perspectives on the Justification of War and International Order from Past to Present

21: The Islamic Law of War and Peace and the International Legal Order: Convergence or Dissonance?

Sohail H. Hashmi

22: In the Name of State Sovereignty? The Justification of War in Russian History and the Present

Paul Robinson and Mikhail Antonov

23: China's Approach to the Use of Force: A Short Review of China's Changing Attitudes towards the Justification of Humanitarian Intervention

Manjiao Chi

Part VII. International Rule of Law: Justifying, Contesting and Perpetuating the Use of Force

24: Justified: Just War and the Ethics of Violence and World Order

Chris Brown

25: How Many Deaths Can Art 2 (4) UN Charter Die?

Thilo Marauhn

26: Justification and Critique: Humanitarianism and Imperialism over Time

B.S. Chimni

27: The Justification and Critique of Coercion as World Order Politics

Christopher Daase and Nicole Deitelhoff

An Attempt at a Synthesis

28: Justifications of the Use of Force as Constitutive Elements of World Order - Points of Departure, Arrivals and Moving Destinations

Lothar Brock and Hendrik Simon

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