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Sovereignty [electronic resource] : moral and historical perspectives / James Turner Johnson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014 2015); Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2014] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (1 PDF (181 pages))ISBN:
  • 9781626160576
  • 1626160570
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 320.1/5 23
LOC classification:
  • JC327 .J55 2014
Online resources:
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 civilizations -- The two conceptions of sovereignty and the "responsibility to protect" doctrine.
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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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