Of War and Law (eBook)

David Kennedy (Autor)

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2009
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2736-7 (ISBN)

Infos

David Kennedy is Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law and Director of the European Law Research Center at Harvard Law School. He is the author of The Dark Sides of Virtue and coauthor of The Canon of American Legal Thought (both Princeton).

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Modern war is law pursued by other means. Once a bit player in military conflict, law now shapes the institutional, logistical, and physical landscape of war. At the same time, law has become a political and ethical vocabulary for marking legitimate power and justifiable death. As a result, the battlespace is as legally regulated as the rest of modern life. In Of War and Law, David Kennedy examines this important development, retelling the history of modern war and statecraft as a tale of the changing role of law and the dramatic growth of law's power. Not only a restraint and an ethical yardstick, law can also be a weapon--a strategic partner, a force multiplier, and an excuse for terrifying violence. Kennedy focuses on what can go wrong when humanitarian and military planners speak the same legal language--wrong for humanitarianism, and wrong for warfare. He argues that law has beaten ploughshares into swords while encouraging the bureaucratization of strategy and leadership. A culture of rules has eroded the experience of personal decision-making and responsibility among soldiers and statesmen alike. Kennedy urges those inside and outside the military who wish to reduce the ferocity of battle to understand the new roles--and the limits--of law. Only then will we be able to revitalize our responsibility for war.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.1.2009
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: American Journal of International Law • arbitration • Asymmetric warfare • authorization • Battlespace • belligerent • Berman • Bourgeoisie • Calculation • Carl von Clausewitz • Citizenship • civilian • Code of conduct • Colonial War • combat • Combatant • command responsibility • Consideration • Cost–benefit analysis • declaration of war • defensive war • Determination • Disarmament • Discretion • Doctrine • Duncan Kennedy (legal philosopher) • Elihu Root • Fourth Geneva Convention • Great Power • Gulf War • historian • hostility • humanitarianism • Institution • Insurgency • International Community • International Court of Justice • International Humanitarian Law • International Law • International Relations • Jurisdiction • Just War Theory • Law in Action • law of war • legal consciousness • Legal Realism • Legitimacy (political) • letter of marque • military campaign • Military justice • Military necessity • Military Operation • Military Strategy • modern warfare • Moral Suasion • Mutual Assured Destruction • National policy • Negotiation • Nuclear warfare • nuclear weapon • Pacifism • Peacebuilding • Peacekeeping • peacemaking • peacetime • perfidy • Philosopher • Police • Police action • Political Science • Political System • Politics • Prerogative • presumption • Prisoner of War • Public International Law • Public Policy • ratification • Raymond Aron • regime change • Reprisal • result • rhetoric • Rules of Engagement • Self-Defense • Sovereignty • Suggestion • suicide attack • the new science • The New York Times • Thought • Torture • Total War • Treaty • vocabulary • war • War Crime • warfare • weapon of mass destruction • Westphalian Sovereignty
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2736-1 / 1400827361
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2736-7 / 9781400827367