Defending humanity : when force is justified and why /

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Author / Creator:Fletcher, George P.
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Description:1 online resource (xvi, 268 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11163222
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Other authors / contributors:Ohlin, Jens David.
ISBN:9780198040354
0198040350
9780195183085
0195183088
Digital file characteristics:text file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-257) and index.
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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.
Other form:Print version: Fletcher, George P. Defending humanity. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008 9780195183085 0195183088