Sovereignty [electronic resource] : moral and historical perspectives / James Turner Johnson.
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- 9781626160576
- 1626160570
- 320.1/5 23
- JC327 .J55 2014
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-169) and index.
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.
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