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Of War and Law, Modern war is law pursued by other means. Once a bit player in military conflict, law now shapes the institutional, logistical, and physical landscape of war. At the same time, law has become a political and ethical vocabulary for marking legitimate power, Of War and Law
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  • Of War and Law
  • Written by author David Kennedy
  • Published by Princeton University Press, 1/10/2009
  • Modern war is law pursued by other means. Once a bit player in military conflict, law now shapes the institutional, logistical, and physical landscape of war. At the same time, law has become a political and ethical vocabulary for marking legitimate power
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Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: War Today 1

Chapter 1: War as a Legal Institution 13
The Political Context for War 13
Professional War 27
Law as the Landscape for War 33
Law and the Legitimacy of Military Operations 39

Chapter 2: The Historical Context: How Did We Get Here? 46
International Law before the Rise of Modern War and Statecraft 47
Law Meets Modern Warfare 56
Changes in Legal Thought: An Opening for Humanitarianism 64
International Institutions and the Rise of a Modern Law of Force 68
Legal Realism and the Transformation of the Law in War 83

Chapter 3: War by Law 99
Battle in the Shadow of Sharp Distinctions and Outsider Ethics: Traces of the Premodern Legal Order 100
Modern Law and Modern War: Problems of Strategy 111
Legal War and the Elusive Experience of Responsibility 141

Epilogue 165
Notes 173
Index 179


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