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Part of the book series: AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice (AMIN, volume 2)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Coercion and the State: Justification and Limits
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Coercion and the State: Legal Powers and Status
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Coercion and the State: National Security
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Coercion and the International Order
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Back Matter
About this book
A signal feature of legal and political institutions is that they exercise coercive power. The essays in this volume examine institutional coercion with the aim of trying to understand its nature, justification and limits. Included are essays that take a fresh look at perennial questions – what, if anything, can legitimate state exercises of coercive force? What is coercion in politics and law? – and essays that take a first or nearly first look at newer questions – may the state coercively hold certain terrorists indefinitely? Does the state coerce those seeking to join in same-sex marriage when it refuses to extend legal recognition to same-sex marriage? Can there be a just international order without some agency possessed of the final and rightful authority to coerce states? Leading scholars from philosophy, political science and law examine these and related questions shedding new light on an apparently inescapable feature of political and legal life: Coercion.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
David A. Reidy
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Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
Walter J. Riker
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Coercion and the State
Editors: David A. Reidy, Walter J. Riker
Series Title: AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6879-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-6878-2Published: 26 March 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7748-6Published: 20 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-6879-9Published: 19 March 2008
Series ISSN: 1873-877X
Series E-ISSN: 2351-9851
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 259
Topics: Law, general, Political Philosophy, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Ethics, Political Science, Philosophy of Law