On Legal and Legitimate Wars in the Transforming Public Sphere: Social Contract Theory’s Confusion about War Declarations
Law, Culture and the Humanities
Published online on April 18, 2023
Abstract
Law, Culture and the Humanities, Volume 22, Issue 1, Page 148-167, February 2026.
This paper examines the discursive conditions that make war legalandlegitimate. In the Post-World War II period, when countries do not declare war, the gap between legality and legitimacy has widened, and wars are often neither. While other studies of ...
This paper examines the discursive conditions that make war legalandlegitimate. In the Post-World War II period, when countries do not declare war, the gap between legality and legitimacy has widened, and wars are often neither. While other studies of ...