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Sovereignty : Moral and Historical Perspectives /

Sovereignty generally refers to a particular national territory, the inviolability of the nation's borders, and the right of that nation to protect its borders and ensure internal stability. From the Middle Ages until well into the Modern Period, however, another concept of sovereignty held swa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Johnson, James Turner (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. I: Sovereign authority and the right to use armed force in classic just war traditions. Sovereignty as responsibility: the coming together and development of a tradition
  • Sovereign authority and the justified use of force in Thomas Aquinas and his early modern successors
  • Sovereign authority and the justified use of force in Luther and the Reformation
  • Grotius and his impact: the Westphalian settlement, the idea of the "law of nations", and the emergence of the territorial idea of sovereignty
  • Transitions in the conception of sovereignty
  • pt. II: Engaging the Westphalian idea of sovereignty. Finding common ground in the diversity of civilizations
  • The two conceptions of sovereignty and the "responsibility to protect" doctrine.