International Norms And The Resort To War

Author : Gregory A. Raymond
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030540128

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International Norms and the Resort to War by Gregory A. Raymond Pdf

This book offers a fresh perspective on timeless questions concerning anarchy and order, power and principle, and public and private morality, by taking a novel approach to the study of the onset of war. Rather than looking at the distribution of wealth, military might, or other material capabilities to explain the onset of war, this book focuses instead on how international norms affect the use of military force. Critical of the realist assumption that international legal norms are unable to curb hostilities without a powerful central authority to enforce their injunctions, it contends that the normative context within which national leaders act sets the tone for world politics by communicating commonly accepted understandings about the limits of permissible action. Using quantitative analyses of the relationships between war-initiation norms and various types of armed conflict, the author calls into question realist beliefs regarding international norms, demonstrating that restrictive normative orders reduce the likelihood of war.

Author : Kjell Goldmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : International law
ISBN : UOM:39015005777761

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International Norms and War Between States by Kjell Goldmann Pdf

Author : Meredith Reid Sarkees,Frank Wayman
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39076002912199

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Resort to War by Meredith Reid Sarkees,Frank Wayman Pdf

This much-anticipated reference book analyzes more than a thousand wars waged from 1816 to 2008 using authoritative, highly standardized, and systematic coding methods from the Correlates of War Project, which aims to reveal the underlying patterns and causes of war. Resort to War lists and categorizes all violent conflicts with 1,000 or more battle deaths and provides an insightful narrative for each struggle.

Author : Brian D. Lepard
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271073323

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Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention by Brian D. Lepard Pdf

Few foreign policy issues in the past decade have elicited as much controversy as the use of military force for humanitarian purposes. In this book Brian Lepard offers a new method for analyzing humanitarian intervention that seeks to resolve conflicts among legal norms by identifying ethical principles embedded in the UN Charter and international law and relating them to a pivotal principle of "unity in diversity." A special feature of the book, which avoids the charge of ethnocentricity brought against other approaches, is that Lepard shows how passages from the revered texts of seven world religions may be interpreted as supporting these ethical principles. In connecting law with ethics and religion in this way, he takes a major step forward in the effort to formulate a normative basis for international law in our multicultural world.

Author : Judith Gail Gardam
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004632400

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Non-Combatant Immunity as a Norm of International Humanitarian Law by Judith Gail Gardam Pdf

Despite the advances made by the international community to outlaw the resort to force by the United Nations Charter, armed conflicts both international and non-international are a fact of every day life. The civilian casualties from such conflicts have assumed catastrophic proportions. Little attention, however, has been paid by scholars to the treatment of noncombatants in armed conflict and the place in international law of the principle fundamental to the law of armed conflict: noncombatant immunity. This work aims to remedy this omission. The author analyses in detail the content of the customary and conventional rules that give effect to this principle, in both international and non-international armed conflict. The importance of such a study is highlighted by the recent Gulf conflict where so many of the States were not bound by the most recent treaty rules protecting noncombatants.

Author : Lacy Pejcinovic
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135629076

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War in International Society by Lacy Pejcinovic Pdf

Is war an institution of international society and how is it constituted as such across the evolution of international society? This book is an inquiry into the purpose of war as a social institution, as originally put forward by Hedley Bull. It offers a comprehensive examination of what is entailed in thinking of war as a social institution and as a mechanism for order. Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11 the subject of war has become increasingly relevant, with questions about who can wage war against whom, the way war is fought, and the reasons that lead us to war exposing fundamental inadequacies in our theorisation of war. War has long been considered in the discipline of International Relations in the context of the problem of order. However, the inclusion of war as an ‘institution’ is problematic for many. How can we understand an idea and practice so often associated with coercion, destruction, and disorder as contributing to order and coexistence? This study contends that an understanding of the core elements that establish the character of war as an institution of modern international society will give us important insights into the purpose, if any, of war in contemporary international relations. This ground-breaking book will be of strong interest to students and scholars of international relations, international relations theory, the English school, security studies and warfare.

Author : David L. Rousseau
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804767514

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Democracy and War by David L. Rousseau Pdf

Conventional wisdom in international relations maintains that democracies are only peaceful when encountering other democracies. Using a variety of social scientific methods of investigation ranging from statistical studies and laboratory experiments to case studies and computer simulations, Rousseau challenges this conventional wisdom by demonstrating that democracies are less likely to initiate violence at early stages of a dispute. Using multiple methods allows Rousseau to demonstrate that institutional constraints, rather than peaceful norms of conflict resolution, are responsible for inhibiting the quick resort to violence in democratic polities. Rousseau finds that conflicts evolve through successive stages and that the constraining power of participatory institutions can vary across these stages. Finally, he demonstrates how constraint within states encourages the rise of clusters of democratic states that resemble "zones of peace" within the anarchic international structure.

Author : Kenki Adachi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000379563

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Changing Arms Control Norms in International Society by Kenki Adachi Pdf

When states’ survival is at stake, do states behave according to norms, do states refrain from using certain weapons based on norms against their use? Adachi presents a comprehensive analytical framework for analysing norm dynamics, incorporating the existing literature, while expanding the norm life cycle model to address contestation of, resistance to diffusion of, and disappearance of norms. He also examines the changing nature of international society, and how the evolving characteristics of this society change how norms are shared. His focus is on norms relating to the use and non-use of weapons, with examples of how norms developed in different places and at different times with regard to particular types of weapons. From the banning of gun use in Japan under Bushido, to international bans on chemical weapons and the foundation of norms on nuclear weapons, he looks not only at how such norms come about, but how they can become contested or disappear. A valuable contribution to the literature on norms in International Relations, this volume will be of particular interest to scholars and students with an interest in the control of arms.

Author : David Todd Kinsella,Craig L. Carr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Military ethics
ISBN : UVA:X030109557

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The Morality of War by David Todd Kinsella,Craig L. Carr Pdf

?A highly useful core text for courses in the field?as well as an invaluable reference for any serious student of the ethics of war.??Albert Pierce, U.S. Naval AcademyWhen and why is war justified? How, morally speaking, should wars be fought? The Morality of War confronts these challenging questions, surveying the fundamental principles and themes of the just war tradition through the words of the philosophers, jurists, and warriors who have shaped it.The collection begins with the foundational works of just war theory, as well as those of two competing perspectives, realism and pacifism. Subsequent selections focus on issues related to the resort to war, the conduct of war, and the judgment of war crimes. Both traditional just war concerns and those that have emerged in response to contemporary developments?such as the U.S. ?war on terror??are thoroughly covered.With articles that are crucially relevant to today?s world paired with contextual introductions to each section, the reader is ideally constructed to inform and guide students as they consider the morality of past and current military actions.David Kinsella is associate professor of political science at the Hatfield School of Government, Portland State University. He is editor of International Studies Perspectives and coauthor of World Politics: The Menu for Choice. Craig L. Carr is professor of political science at the Hatfield School of Government. He is author of On Fairness and editor of The Political Writings of Samuel Pufendorf.

Author : Mark R. Amstutz
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781442220959

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International Ethics by Mark R. Amstutz Pdf

Now in a comprehensively revised and updated edition, International Ethics cogently demonstrates that moral values and ethical reasoning are indispensable in global politics. Through balanced arguments and a wide-ranging selection of case studies, Mark R. Amstutz convincingly demonstrates that moral norms are an essential element of foreign policy and that ethical analysis is central to the study of international relations. Amstutz illustrates the role of moral norms in global politics with twenty-five revised and new case studies. The cases are focused on eight major global issues: political reconciliation, human rights, war, irregular war, foreign intervention, economic sanctions, justice among states, and global justice. This clearly written study will be of special interest to students and practitioners of international affairs who are concerned with the role of political morality and ethical judgment in global affairs.

Author : Frederick O. Bonkovsky
Publisher : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : International relations
ISBN : UCAL:$B589702

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International Norms and National Policy by Frederick O. Bonkovsky Pdf

Author : Joseph Rotblat
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789810247737

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Proceedings of the Forty-ninth Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, Rustenburg, South Africa, 7-13 September 1999 by Joseph Rotblat Pdf

In September 1999, scientists and scholars from around the world, concerned with reducing the danger of armed conflict and seeking cooperative solutions to global problems, met under the auspices of the Pugwash conferences, the Nobel-Prize-winning organization. The proceedings deal with a broad range of issues, including: a nuclear-weapon-free world; emerging security threats; development; environment; and international governance.

Author : Jones Irwin
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : War
ISBN : 9042019336

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War and Virtual War by Jones Irwin Pdf

If the practice of war is as old as human history, so too is the need to reflect upon war, to understand its meaning and implications. The Pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus asserted in 600BC that War (polemos) is justice, thus inaugurating a long philosophical tradition of consideration of the morality of war. In recent times, the increased specialisation of academic disciplines has led a to a fragmentation of the thematic of war within the academy - the topic of war is as likely to be addressed by sociologists, cultural theorists, psychologists and even computer scientists as it is by historians, philosophers or political scientists. This diversity of disciplinary approaches to war is undoubtedly fruitful in itself but can lead to an isolation of respective disciplinary analyses of war from each other. In July 2002, at Mansfield College, Oxford, an inter-disciplinary conference on war (entitled 'War and Virtual War') was held so as to redress some of this disciplinary isolationism and to forge an integrative dialogue on war, in all its facets. The papers in this volume were nominated by delegates as the most paradigmatic of the ethos of the original project and the most successful in achieving its aims of inter-disciplinarity and critical dialogue.

Author : Michael N. Schmitt,Jelena Pejic
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004154285

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International Law And Armed Conflict, Exploring the Faultlines by Michael N. Schmitt,Jelena Pejic Pdf

International law and armed conflict exist in a symbiotic relationship. In some cases, law shapes conflict proactively by imposing normative limits in advance of the appearance of proscribed conduct. Much more commonly, armed conflict either reveals lacunae in the law or demonstrates how law designed for yesterday's wars falls short when applied to contemporary conflict. When that happens, international law reacts by allowing provisions to fall into desuetude, embracing new interpretations of existing prescriptions, or generating new norms through practice or codification. In the 21st Century, both international security and armed conflict are the subject of arguably unprecedented sea changes. As a result, claims that both the" jus ad bellum" and "jus in bello" are unwieldy and ill-fitting in the context of modern hostilities have surfaced prominently. Whether one agrees with such dire assessments, what has become clear is that armed conflict is increasingly exposing faultlines in the law governing the resort to force. The intent of this collection of essays in honour of Professor Yoram Dinstein on the occasion of his 70th birthday is to explore such faultlines, first by identifying them and then by assessing their consequences. In a sense, then, the essays, contributed by the top minds in the field, will serve to assist academics and practitioners to anticipate pressure on the law governing armed conflict and, to the extent possible, react accordingly. Paralleling Professor Dinstein's classic works - "War, Aggression, and Self-Defence and The Conduct of Hostilities Under the Law of International Armed Conflict "? the book addresses both "ius ad bellum" and "ius in bello" topics.

Author : Greg Cashman,Leonard C. Robinson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538127803

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An Introduction to the Causes of War by Greg Cashman,Leonard C. Robinson Pdf

This pioneering book explains the causes of war through a sustained combination of theoretical insights and detailed case studies from WWI to the Iraq War. Cashman and Robinson find that, while all wars have multiple causes, specific factors typically combine in identifiable “dangerous patterns” that lead to bloody conflicts between countries.