Defending humanity : when force is justified and why / George P. Fletcher and Jens David Ohlin.
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 h...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Online Access: | Oxford Scholarship Online |
Table of 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.