Human rights, legitimacy, and the use of force
by Allen E. Buchanan
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The thirteen essays by Allen Buchanan collected here are arranged in such a way as to make evident their thematic interconnections: the important and hitherto unappreciated relationships among the nature and grounding of human rights, the legitimacy of international institutions, and the justification for using military force across borders. Each of these three topics has spawned a significant literature, but unfortunately has been treated in isolation. In this volume Buchanan makes the case show more for a holistic, systematic approach, and in so doing constitutes a major contribution at the intersecti show lessTags
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Allen Buchanan is the author of eleven books on bioethics and political philosophy. He has served on the Advisory Council for the National Human Genome Research Institute, Staff Philosopher for the President's Commission on Medical Ethics, and as consultant to President Barack Obama's Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.
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- 341 — Social sciences Law Law of nations
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- KZ3410 .B828 — Law Law of nations Law of nations Law of nations 21st century
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