Justifying International Acts

In this challenging interdisciplinary book, Lea Brilmayer seeks to alter the terms in which we discuss the ethics of international relations. Traditionally, such relations have been thought to concern the "horizontal" interactions between sovereign nation-states, and have been studied quit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Brilmayer, Lea
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca ; London Cornell University Press 2019, ©1989
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Collection: DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Jurisdiction, Political Theory, and International Law: The Vertical Thesis
  • Introduction to Part I
  • 1. Political Legitimacy and Jurisdictional Boundaries
  • 2. Political Theory and International Law
  • 3. Boundary Assumptions in Domestic Political Theory
  • Part II. Issues and Implications
  • Introduction to Part II
  • 4. Self-limiting Political Theories
  • 5. Sovereignty and Nonintervention
  • 6. Affirmative Duties
  • 7. Humanitarian Intervention
  • Conclusion: Political Theory for an Interdependent World
  • Index