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Defending humanity : when force is justified and why /

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 h...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fletcher, George P.
Otros Autores: Ohlin, Jens David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvi, 268 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-257) and index.
ISBN:9780198040354
0198040350
9780195183085
0195183088
1281162582
9781281162588
9786611162580
6611162585