TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kennedy,David
TI  - Of War and Law
SN  - 9781282129665
AV  - KZ6396 K38
PB  - Princeton University Press.
KW  - War (International law)
KW  - Just war doctrine
N1  - War as a legal institution -- The historical context : how did we get here? -- War by law
N2  - 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 and justifiable death. As a result, the battlespace is as legally regulated as the rest of modern life. In Of War and Law, David Kennedy examines this important development, retelling the history of modern war and statecraft as a tale of the changing role of law and the dramatic growth of law's power. Not only a restraint and an eth
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