Corneliu Bjola

Legitimising the Use of Force in International Politics

Kosovo, Iraq and the Ethics of Intervention

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book aims to examine the conditions under which the decision to use force can be reckoned as legitimate in international relations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780415492553
• ISBN-10: 0415492556
• Artikelnr.: 26867521

Autorenporträt

Corneliu Bjola is SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow with the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Concept of Legitimacy in International Relations 2. The Moral
Legitimacy of the Use of Force 3. The Legal Legitimacy of the Use of Force
4. The Deliberative Legitimacy of the Use of Force 5. Humanitarianism
revisited: the NATO intervention in Kosovo 6. Defensive necessity vs. war
of choice: the United States-led military action against Iraq 7.
Conclusions: Institutionalizing Deliberative Legitimacy Bibliography