This collection arrives during radical, global re-thinking. Just as structures of inequality, violence, and environmental destruction are being shaken, the authors expose a falsehood that has helped lead to these harms. Humanity has never accepted a free right to resort to war. Sophisticated law to prohibit armed conflict did not spring up in the mid-20th century. With this and other errors exposed, the book moves us toward renewal of the law of peace we so urgently need.
Lothar Brock is Senior Professor of Political Science at Goethe University Frankfurt and at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. He is co-author of Fragile States: Violence and the Failure of Intervention (Polity, 2012) and co-editor of Democratic Wars: Looking at the Dark Side of Democratic Peace (Palgrave, 2006).
Hendrik Simon is Lecturer at Goethe University Frankfurt and Research Associate at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. He was Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Advanced International Theory/University of Sussex (2017), at the University of Vienna (2018, 2016), at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Frankfurt (2015-16) and at the Cluster of Excellence 'Normative Orders' (2011-12).