The Public Uses of Coercion and Force

From Constitutionalism to War
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-0-19-751910-3
Verlag: Sydney University Press

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

The Kantian project of achieving perpetual peace among states seems (at best) an unfulfilled hope. Modern states' authority claims and their exercise of power and sovereignty span a spectrum: from the most stringently and explicitly codified-the constitutional level-to the most fluid and turbulent-acts of war. The Public Uses of Coercion and Force investigates both these individual extremes and also their relationship. Using Arthur Ripstein's recent work
Kant and the Law of War as a focal point, this book explores this connection through the lens of the (just) war theory and its relationship to the law.

The Public Uses of Coercion and Force asks many key questions: what, if any, are the normatively salient differences between states' internal coercion and the external use of force? Is it possible to isolate the constitutional level from other aspects of the state's coercive reach? How could that be done while also guaranteeing a robust conception of human rights and adherence to the rule of law? With individual replies by Ripstein to chapters, this book will be of interest to students
and academics of constitutional law, justice, philosophy of law, criminal law theory, and political science.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Herlin-Karnell, Ester

Rossi, Enzo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht

Über Autor(innen)

Ester Herlin-Karnell is Professor of EU law and EU criminal law at the University of Gothenburg, School of Law, Sweden. She was previously University Research Chair in EU Constitutional Law and Justice at the VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Enzo Rossi is Associate Professor of political science at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and co-editor of the European Journal of Political Theory.