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Most people think of international organizations in general as parts of an effort to prevent international war. A close look at the entire range of modern international organizations, however, requires a modification of that notion, for one finds some agencies devoted to activities that seem irrelevant to the problem of war and others whose functions are at best indirectly related to that problem. Prevention of war is clearly not the only, or in every case the primary, goal toward which international organizations are directed.
Reprinted with permission from Political Science Quarterly, vol. 95, no. 1 (Spring 1980).
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I am indebted to Professor Enno E. Kraehe for calling my attention to this debate, which appears in Great Britain, Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, 2d Series, vol. 7 (London, 1823) p. 1652.
See Joachim von Elbe, ‘The Evolution of the Concept of the Just War in International Law’, American Journal of International Law, vol. 33 (October 1939) pp. 665–88;
and Arthur Nussbaum, A Concise History of the Law of Nations (New York, 1947).
Josef L. Kunz, ‘Sanctions in International Law’, American Journal of International Law, vol. 54 (April 1960) p. 325.
Cited by G. I. A. D. Draper, ‘Wars of National Liberation and War Criminality’, in Michael Howard (ed.) Restraints on War (Oxford, 1979) p. 137.
Hedley Bull, ‘The Grotian Conception of International Society’, in Herbert Butterfield and Martin Wight (eds) Diplomatic Investigations (Cambridge, Mass., 1966) pp. 70–1.
Cited by Peter F. Butler, ‘Legitimacy in a States-System: Vattel’s Law of Nations’, in Michael Donelan (ed.) The Reason of States (London, 1978) pp. 54–5.
United Nations, General Assembly, Official Records, Resolution 3314 (XXIX), 14 December 1974.
See, for instance, United Nations, General Assembly, Official Records, Resolution 2131 (XX), 21 December 1965; Resolution 2326 (XXII), 16 December 1967; Resolution 2908 (XXVII), 2 November 1972; and Resolution 3281 (XXIX), 12 December 1974.
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Claude, I.L. (1988). Just Wars: Doctrines and Institutions. In: States and the Global System. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09826-2_6
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