The Kantian project of achieving perpetual peace among states seems (at best) an unfulfilled hope. Modern states' authority claims and their exercise of power and sovereignty span a spectrum: from the most stringently and explicitly codified - the constitutional level - to the most fluid and
turbulent - acts of war. The Public Uses of Coercion and Force investigates both these individual extremes and also their relationship. Using Arthur Ripstein's recent work Kant and the Law of War as a focal point, this book explores this connection through the lens of the (just) war theory and its
relationship to the law.
The Public Uses of Coercion and Force asks many key questions: what, if any, are the normatively salient differences between states' internal coercion and the external use of force? Is it possible to isolate the constitutional level from other aspects of the
state's coercive reach? How could that be done while also guaranteeing a robust conception of human rights and adherence to the rule of law? With individual replies by Ripstein to chapters, this book will be of interest to students and academics of constitutional law, justice, philosophy of law,
criminal law theory, and political science.
Part 1
Chapter 1: Introduction by the editors
Chapter 2: Yitzakh Benbaji, "A Semi-Kantian Just War Theory"
Chapter 3: Rainer Forst, "Might and Right: Ripstein, Kant and the Paradox of Peace"
Chapter 4: Thomas Mertens, "Reading Kant's Rechtslehre; Some
observations on Ripstein's Kant and the Law of War"
Chapter 5: Anna Stilz, "The Moral Basis of State Independence"
Chapter 6: Peter Niesen, "Cosmopolitan Right: From Grotius to Ripstein to Kant"
Chapter 7: Alice Pinheiro Walla, "Three Models of Territory. Arthur Ripstein
on Territorial Rights"
Chapter 8: Alon Harel, "A Kantian Defense of Remedial Wars"
Chapter 9: Massimo Renzo, "National Defence and the Value of Independence"
Part 2
Chapter 10: Katrin Flikschuh, "Exactitude and Indemonstrability in Kant's Doctrine of
Right"
Chapter 11: Johan Oltsthoorn, "Conceptualizing private rights of enforcement in revisionist just war theory: the case of human rights to subsistence"
Chapter 12: Aravind Ganesh "The relationship between International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law from
the perspective of Kant"
Chapter 13: Malcolm Thornburn "Kant and the Criminal Law of War"
Chapter 14: Ester Herlin-Karnell, "EU solidarity as collective self-defence? Constitutionalism and the public uses of coercion and force"
Chapter 15: Bertjan Wolthuis & Luigi
Corrias, "Europe's Cosmopolitan Constitution. A Kantian reading of the EU internal market and the refugee crisis"
Part 3
Chapter 16: Replies and closing commentary by Arthur Ripstein
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Ester Herlin-Karnell is Professor of EU law and EU criminal law at the University of Gothenburg, School of Law, Sweden. She was previously University Research Chair in EU Constitutional Law and Justice at the VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Enzo Rossi is Associate
Professor of political science at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and co-editor of the European Journal of Political Theory.
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