| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 268 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Murder among nations -- How to talk about self-defense -- A theory of legitimate defense -- The six elements of legitimate defense -- Excusing international aggression -- Humanitarian intervention -- Preemptive and preventitive wars -- The collective dimension of war |
| Summary |
In Defending Humanity, internationally acclaimed legal scholar George P. Fletcher and Jens David Ohlin, a leading expert on international criminal law, tackle one of the most important and controversial questions of our time: When is war justified? When a nation is attacked, few would deny that it has the right to respond with force. But what about preemptive and preventive wars, or crossing another state's border to stop genocide? Was Israel justified in initiating the Six Day War, and was NATO's intervention in Kosovo legal? What about the U.S. invasion of Iraq?. In their provocative new boo |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-257) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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War.
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War -- Causes.
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Intervention (International law)
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Preemptive attack (Military science)
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Security, International.
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Armed Conflicts
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
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HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
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Intervention (International law)
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Preemptive attack (Military science)
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Security, International
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War
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War -- Causes
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Präventivkrieg
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Militärische Intervention
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Krieg.
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Intervention.
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Präventivkrieg.
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Sicherheitspolitik.
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Krieg.
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Intervention (Völkerrecht)
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Sicherheit.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ohlin, Jens David.
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| LC no. |
2007033110 |
| ISBN |
9780198040354 |
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0198040350 |
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9780195183085 |
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0195183088 |
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1281162582 |
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9781281162588 |
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9786611162580 |
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6611162585 |
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