David Traven (Fullerton California State University)

Law and Sentiment in International Politics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Traven's analysis will provide IR theorists, international lawyers, and moral philosophers with a better understanding of why civilian immunity norms emerged and developed in modern international law. Furthermore, it will help them better understand why these norms fail to adequately protect civilians, and what can be done to improve them.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in International Relations
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9781108949392
• ISBN-10: 1108949398
• Artikelnr.: 70176697

Autorenporträt

David Traven is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at California State University-Fullerton.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. A Theory of Moral Psychology and International Norms: 1.
Introduction: the laws of war and the puzzle of norm emergence; 2. Mapping
the mind: moral psychology and international humanitarian law; Part II. The
Universal Grammar of the Laws of War: China, Islam, and the West: 3. Taming
the sovereign: state formation and the ethics of war in ancient China; 4.
War and peace in Islamic law: cultural evolution and the ethics of war in
early Islam; 5. Moral emotions and natural law: the peace of god, catholic
just war theory, and the European enlightenment; Part III. Moral Sentiments
and the Development of International Humanitarian Law: 6. Humanizing hell:
the Hague peace conferences and the second world war, 1899-1945; 7. A moral
revolution in the history of humankind: the Geneva conventions and the
politics of international humanitarian law, 1945-1977; 8. Conclusion: moral
emotions, permissive effects, and the rationalization of IHL.