Kalmanovitz's superbly argued study covers and impressive wealth of material from Spanish scholasticism to nineteenth-century humanitarianism. There is no other study which puts the laws of war so competently at the heart of international thought. Kalmanovitz provides a fresh look on canonical authors, offering in the process new interpretations of theories of just war, solemn war, and regular war in intellectual history.
Pablo Kalmanovitz is research professor at the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City.