The Public Uses of Coercion and Force: From Constitutionalism to War

by Enzo Rossi and Ester Herlin-Karnell

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197519105
• ISBN13: 9780197519103
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"