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The Kantian project of achieving perpetual peace among states seems (at best) an unfulfilled hope. Modern states' authority claims and their exercise of power and sovereignty span a spectrum: from the most stringently and explicitly codified-the constitutional level-to the most fluid and turbulent-acts of war.
The Public Uses of Coercion and Force investigates both these individual extremes and also their relationship. Using Arthur Ripstein's recent work
Kant and the Law of War as a focal point, this book explores this connection through the lens of the (just) war theory and its relationship to the law.
List of contents
- Part One
- 1. Introduction
- Ester Herlin-Karnell and Enzo Rossi
- 2. A Semi-Kantian Just War Theory
- Yitzhak Benbaji
- 3. Might and Right: Ripstein, Kant and the Paradox of Peace
- Rainer Forst
- 4. Reading Kant's Rechtslehre: Some Observations on Ripstein's Kant and the Law of War
- Thomas Mertens
- 5. The Moral Basis of State Independence
- Anna Stilz
- 6. Vulnerability, Space, Communication: Three Conditions of Adequacy for Cosmopolitan Right
- Peter Niesen
- 7. Three Models of Territory: Arthur Ripstein on the Territorial Rights of States
- Alice Pinheiro Walla
- 8. A Kantian Defense of Remedial Wars
- Alon Harel
- 9. National Defense and the Value of Independence
- Massimo Renzo
- Part Two
- 10. Exactitude and Indemonstrability in Kant's Doctrine of Right
- Katrin Flikschuh
- 11. The Right to Wage Private Wars of Subsistence: Its Nature, Grounds, and Place in Revisionist Just War Theories
- Johan Olsthoorn
- 12. Between Wormholes and Blackholes: A Kantian (Ripsteinian) Account of Human Rights in War
- Aravind Ganesh
- 13. Kant and the Criminal Law of War
- Malcolm Thorburn
- 14. EU Solidarity as Collective Self-Defense?: Constitutionalism and the Public Uses of Force
- Ester Herlin-Karnell
- 15. Europe's Cosmopolitan Union: A Kantian Reading of EU Internal Market Law and the Refugee Crisis
- Bertjan Wolthuis and Luigi Corrias
- Part Three
- 16. From Constitutionalism to War-and Back Again: A Reply
- Arthur Ripstein
About the author
Ester Herlin-Karnell is Professor of EU law and EU criminal law at the University of Gothenburg, School of Law, Sweden. She was previously University Research Chair in EU Constitutional Law and Justice at the VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Enzo Rossi is Associate Professor of political science at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and co-editor of the European Journal of Political Theory.
Summary
The Kantian project of achieving perpetual peace among states seems (at best) an unfulfilled hope. Modern states' authority claims and their exercise of power and sovereignty span a spectrum: from the most stringently and explicitly codified-the constitutional level-to the most fluid and turbulent-acts of war. The Public Uses of Coercion and Force investigates both these individual extremes and also their relationship. Using Arthur Ripstein's recent work Kant and the Law of War as a focal point, this book explores this connection through the lens of the (just) war theory and its relationship to the law.
The Public Uses of Coercion and Force asks many key questions: what, if any, are the normatively salient differences between states' internal coercion and the external use of force? Is it possible to isolate the constitutional level from other aspects of the state's coercive reach? How could that be done while also guaranteeing a robust conception of human rights and adherence to the rule of law? With individual replies by Ripstein to chapters, this book will be of interest to students and academics of constitutional law, justice, philosophy of law, criminal law theory, and political science.
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Contemporary ethics of war focuses invariably on the divide between Walzarian Just War Theory and its revisionist alternative. This superb collection boldly breaks through the overdone "traditionalist v. revisionists" theme, offering a fresh look at the morality and legality of warfare from a Kantian perspective. Celebrating Arthur Ripstein's Kant and the Law of War, authors engage prominent scholars of law, moral philosophy and politics to debate the intricate relationship between states' internal and external use of force. This first-rate volume of original essays is highly recommended-reading for anyone concerned with these issues in war and peace.
