Wars, laws, rights and the making of global insecurities

This book offers a unique and timely political analysis of war, international law and human rights, and the important interconnections among them. It questions why war features as a foundational problem in ​contemporary world affairs and explores how international law is used to manage this and othe...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rogers, Damien, 1975- autor (autor)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan 2022
Series:Human Rights Interventions
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • 1 Introduction
  • References
  • 2 The Problem of War
  • Political Violence and Human Insecurity
  • Types of Political Violence
  • Understanding the Fury of War
  • Foucault's Silent War
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 3 The Trouble with International Law
  • Bourdieu's Fields of Law
  • Laws of Political Violence
  • Prohibition on Aggressive Armed Force
  • International Humanitarian Law
  • International Criminal Law
  • Transnational Criminal Law
  • Contesting the Political Violence of Law
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 4 The Tragedy of Human Rights
  • Human Rights and the Modernist Project
  • War and Human Rights
  • Law and Human Rights
  • Humanity and the Anthropocene
  • Latour's Political Ecology
  • Alternative Futures?
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 5 Conclusion
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • Index