The Crime of Aggression, 2019, Vol.31, p.53-70
2019
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- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- Cold War Jus ad Bellum: LAW OF FORCE VS. RULE OF LAW
- Ist Teil von
- The Crime of Aggression, 2019, Vol.31, p.53-70
- Ort / Verlag
- United States: Princeton University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2019
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- Nuremberg’s essential lesson was that men, not abstract entities, cause wars. Intensifying competition between militarized states can create a volatile situation, but it takes a skillful demagogue to mobilize and harness a nation’s dormant aggression. During the Cold War, the Nuremberg precedent was brushed aside, and states were once again treated as the primary global actors. Two competing international orders emerged; Ferencz called them the Rule of Force and the Rule of Law. To his dismay, neither criminalized aggression. Fixation on superpower competition and insensitivity to the collateral damage to “peripheral” communities enabled the dangerous emergence of individuals with the
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 9780691169873, 069116987XDOI: 10.1515/9780691191355-006Titel-ID: cdi_proquest_ebookcentralchapters_5750332_8_66
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Applied sciences, Armed conflict, Armed forces, Chemical compounds, Chemicals, Chemistry, Cold wars, Communism, Free radicals, Human geography, International cooperation, International disputes, International humanitarian law, International law, International politics, International relations, Jurisprudence, Law, Laws of war, Military science, Nuclear weapons, Philosophy of law, Physical sciences, Political geography, Political ideologies, Political philosophy, Political science, Politics, Right to war, Rule of law, Social sciences, Sovereign states, Technology, War, Weapons, Weapons of mass destruction