Just War and International Order

The Uncivil Condition in World Politics
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-107-03164-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 482 g

At the opening of the twenty-first century, while obviously the world is still struggling with violence and conflict, many commentators argue that there are many reasons for supposing that restrictions on the use of force are growing. The establishment of the International Criminal Court, the growing sophistication of international humanitarian law and the 'rebirth' of the just war tradition over the last fifty years are all taken as signs of this trend. This book argues that, on the contrary, the just war tradition, allied to a historically powerful and increasingly dominant conception of politics in general, is complicit with an expansion of the grounds of supposedly legitimate force, rather than a restriction of it. In offering a critique of this trajectory, 'Just War and International Order' also seeks to illuminate a worrying trend for international order more generally and consider what, if any, alternative there might be to it.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rengger, Nicholas

Rengger, N. J.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Disordered world; 2. War music: social imaginaries of war in the modern age; 3. Just war: ambiguous tradition; 4. Force for good?; 5. Supreme emergency; Epilogue: a choice not a destiny.

Über Autor(innen)

Rengger, Nicholas
Nicholas Rengger is Professor of Political Theory and International Relations at the University of St Andrews. His scholarly interests range across political theory and international relations and include philosophy, intellectual history and contemporary philosophical and political theology. He has published in all of these areas and his recent publications include Critical International Relations Theory after 25 Years (edited with Tristram Benedict Thirkell-White, Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Evaluating Global Orders (Cambridge University Press, 2011).