الهیات برای حقوق بین الملل | کتابخانه مجازی الفبا

Table of contents :
Cover......Page 1
HalfTitle......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Abbreviations......Page 12
1 Introduction......Page 14
A perceived crisis in international law......Page 16
John Paul II’s call for the renewal of the international legal order......Page 18
Post-1945 political realism......Page 22
Post-2001 new cosmopolitanism......Page 28
International law in Christian (Protestant Thomist) perspective......Page 30
Answerability before God and the international community......Page 31
Answerability and the international common good......Page 36
What is asked of Christian ethics and political theology?......Page 39
2 Towards a Restatement of Natural Law Reasoning......Page 44
Avoiding old caricatures......Page 50
Three moments in the task: Confession, critique, construction......Page 53
The telos of law in God......Page 54
The injustice of human law......Page 60
Reasoning about human law......Page 68
Natural law reasoning as critique......Page 73
Peacemaking......Page 78
Good order......Page 81
Common good......Page 83
3 Jus Cogens Norms and the Impurity of Natural Law Reasoning......Page 86
On the reasonability of law......Page 87
Legal prohibitions against torture......Page 90
The problem of democratic deficit......Page 96
The problem of vagueness......Page 99
What if the consensus supports torture?......Page 102
The problem of legitimacy......Page 103
The problem of prioritizing democratic will over reason......Page 109
On the telos of law......Page 113
Reading Aquinas in context......Page 115
Telos, custom and consent......Page 118
Can international common good be known and advanced?......Page 126
4 Peacemaking through Law: Ambivalence, Violence and Answerability......Page 130
Non-international and international armed conflict......Page 132
Just war criteria stretched to breaking point?......Page 139
On the changing definition of war......Page 143
A brief historical survey......Page 148
‘Ordinary’ and ‘Extraordinary’ judgement......Page 150
The right of self-defence......Page 154
Membership or non-membership of the foedus amphictyonum......Page 159
Security and imminent threat......Page 166
Perceptions of the enemy......Page 171
Who is my enemy?......Page 173
Enemies of the state?......Page 177
Desiring the enemy’s good......Page 181
5 Responsibility to Protect and Militarized Humanitarian Intervention: Tests and Challenges......Page 184
Vatican and WCC statements on RtoP......Page 185
On the identity of the authority that can approve intervention......Page 193
RtoP and the protection of human rights......Page 198
RtoP and limiting the use of force......Page 203
On the restraint of others from sin......Page 205
Realism and mixed motives......Page 207
Seriousness of risk......Page 210
Right intention......Page 214
Last resort......Page 217
Proportional means......Page 220
Balance of consequences......Page 224
Conclusions......Page 227
6 Nation-States, Borders and Love of Neighbour: Impartiality and the Ordo Amoris......Page 230
A world without borders?......Page 237
Reasons for caution......Page 239
Theoretical contexts......Page 242
Nations and divine wrath......Page 247
Aquinas on the ‘Order in Charity’......Page 251
Nation as family?......Page 255
Proximity and constitutional patriotism......Page 257
Answerability within and beyond territorial borders: Matthew 25.31–35......Page 259
How borders function......Page 260
Particular loves and Catholic benevolence......Page 264
7 Human Rights and Ideological Conflict: Threats to the Rule of Law......Page 266
Universality in international law......Page 270
Enriching human rights?......Page 271
Human rights in Christian perspective(s)......Page 274
Islamic views on the meaning of ‘Universality’......Page 278
Freedom of religion......Page 284
Neo-Kantian theory and the meaning of universality......Page 290
The problem of hegemony......Page 291
The problem of imperialism......Page 294
Kant’s concept of right......Page 296
Implications for the restraint of religious liberty......Page 299
Critical accommodation......Page 307
8 Concluding Theses......Page 312
Bibliography......Page 322
INDEX OF BIBLICAL REFERENCES......Page 352
INDEX OF NAMES......Page 354
INDEX OF SUBJECTS......Page 360