Legitimising the use of force in international politics
Subtitle: Kosovo, Iraq and the ethics of intervention
By: Corneliu Bjola.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780415492553; 9780203873915
Subjects: Intervention (International law); Humanitarian intervention -- Balkan Peninsula; Iraq War, 2003; Kosovo War, 1998-1999 -- Participation, Foreign
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The concept of legitimacy in international relations; title: The moral legitimacy of the use of force; title: The legal legitimacy of the use of force; title: The deliberative legitimacy of the use of force; title: Humanitarianism revisited : the NATO intervention in Kosovo; title: Defensive necessity vs. war of choice : the United States-led military action against Iraq; title: Conclusions : institutionalizing deliberative legitimacy.