Aggression, crime, and international security : moral, political, and legal dimensions of international relations / Page Wilson.
2009
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Title
Aggression, crime, and international security : moral, political, and legal dimensions of international relations / Page Wilson.
Published
London ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, [2009]
Copyright
©2009
Call Number
KZ6374 .W55 2009
ISBN
9780415485241 (hardcover)
041548524X (hardcover)
9780203877371 (e-book)
0203877373 (e-book)
041548524X (hardcover)
9780203877371 (e-book)
0203877373 (e-book)
Description
xi, 171 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)275152023
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [159]-166) and index.
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Gift of the Columbia Law Alumni Fund
Gift
The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library
Gift of the Columbia Law Alumni Fund
Table of Contents
1
The concept of aggression in international relations
1
The concept of aggression: basic features
3
The cosmopolitan 'project' and aggression
6
Communitarianism and aggression
13
Conclusion - aggression: moral anathema, political problem, legal solution?
17
2
Aggression in the post-World War I settlement
19
Aggression and the League of Nations: article 10 of the Covenant
20
Aggression and the end of World War I: article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles
26
Aggression and articles 227-230 of the Treaty of Versailles
29
Conclusion
31
3
State aggression at the League, 1920 to 1940
33
Canadian attempts to amend article 10
33
The 'gap' in the Covenant
34
The 1933 Soviet Draft Definition of the Aggressor
35
International security agreements made outside the League
36
Aggression and League practice
36
Conclusion
43
4
Aggression and individual criminal responsibility at Nuremberg and subsequent trials
45
The end of World War II in Europe and the problem of the top-ranking Nazis
46
Prosecuting the Nazi elite: political and legal challenges
48
The crime of aggression at the IMT
52
Criticisms of the Nuremberg Trial
53
Conclusion
56
5
Aggression and individual criminal responsibility at the Tokyo Trial
59
The end of World War II in the Asia-Pacific and the establishment of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE)
60
The decision not to prosecute Emperor Hirohito
62
Evidence and the crime of aggression
63
The crime of aggression and the circumstances of Japanese involvement in World War II
64
The crime of aggression in the Tokyo judgment
66
Conclusion
68
6
The UN's 'definition' of state aggression, 1944 to 1974
70
Aggression in the United Nations Charter
71
Defining aggression at the United Nations
75
Conclusion
82
7
The International Law Commission's attempts to criminalise state aggression, 1946 to 1998
84
Aggression as a crime: 1946 to 1954
85
Aggression as a crime: 1981 to 1996
88
United Nations Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the establishment of an International Criminal Court, Rome, 15 June to 17 July 1998
95
Conclusion
98
8
State aggression at the UN, 1945 to 2009
100
Security Council
101
General Assembly
103
The International Court of Justice
105
Conclusion
107
9
Conclusion
109
Developments since 1998
109
Aggression, Walzer's 'universal moment' and cosmopolitan democracy
115
Aggression, progress and peaceful change
117
App. 1
Results of the Nuremberg judgment, 1946
120
App. 2
Results of the Tokyo judgment, 1948
121
App. 3
General Assembly Resolution 3314: Definition of Aggression, 1974
124
Notes
129
Bibliography
159
Index
167