Introduction.I. Conduct of War.A. Discrimination.B. Proportionality.C. Tolerable Conduct?.II. Resort to War.A. Conditioning Resort on Tolerable Conduct.B. Two Contemporary Challenges to Self-Defense Only:.1. Preventive Attack.2. Humanitarian intervention.Conclusion.Index
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9781405192385
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2013-05-10
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Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
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P, 06
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Engelsk
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224

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Henry Shue is Professor of Ethics and Public Life, Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University. His primary interests are ethical issues that arise in international affairs, especially issues about the foreign policy of the United States. He has worked on the relative priority of economic rights, the strength of obligations across national boundaries, the morality of nuclear deterrence, and the justice of international cooperation on the environment. He is the author of Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U.S. Foreign Policy (1980; 2nd ed., 1996), and the editor of Nuclear Deterrence and Moral Restraint: Critical Choices for American Strategy (1989).