The Public Uses of Coercion and Force

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.

• Part One1. IntroductionEster Herlin-Karnell and Enzo Rossi2. A Semi-Kantian Just War TheoryYitzhak Benbaji3. Might and Right: Ripstein, Kant and the Paradox of PeaceRainer Forst4. Reading Kant's Rechtslehre: Some Observations on Ripstein's Kant and the Law of WarThomas Mertens5. The Moral Basis of State IndependenceAnna Stilz6. Vulnerability, Space, Communication: Three Conditions of Adequacy for Cosmopolitan RightPeter Niesen7. Three Models of Territory: Arthur Ripstein on the Territorial Rights of StatesAlice Pinheiro Walla8. A Kantian Defense of Remedial WarsAlon Harel9. National Defense and the Value of IndependenceMassimo RenzoPart Two10. Exactitude and Indemonstrability in Kant's Doctrine of RightKatrin Flikschuh11. The Right to Wage Private Wars of Subsistence: Its Nature, Grounds, and Place in Revisionist Just War TheoriesJohan Olsthoorn12. Between Wormholes and Blackholes: A Kantian (Ripsteinian) Account of Human Rights in WarAravind Ganesh13. Kant and the Criminal Law of WarMalcolm Thorburn14. EU Solidarity as Collective Self-Defense?: Constitutionalism and the Public Uses of ForceEster Herlin-Karnell15. Europe's Cosmopolitan Union: A Kantian Reading of EU Internal Market Law and the Refugee CrisisBertjan Wolthuis and Luigi CorriasPart Three16. From Constitutionalism to WarDLand Back Again: A ReplyArthur Ripstein

This important collection of essays offers innovative and constructive analyses of some of the most fundamental aspects of state power. With contributions from leading moral, political and legal philosophers on topics ranging from territorial rights, refugees, and the resort to and conduct of war, its breadth, originality and quality commend it to all those with interests in these key components of political power.