Loading…

Sovereignty : Moral and Historical Perspectives /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Johnson, James Turner
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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 civlizations
  • The two conceptions of sovereignty and the "responsibility to protect" doctrine.