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The Chinese Journal of International Politics 2008 2(2):167-169; doi:10.1093/cjip/pon012
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Reproduced from the Quarterly Journal of International Politics, with kind permission of the authors and the Institute of International Studies, Tsinghua University

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Why did states not begin systematically to develop laws of war until the second half of the 19th century? What factors make the laws of war effective? Xu Jin's article The Evolution of International Laws of War addresses these thought provoking questions. The author argues that changes in value rationality determine the general direction of changes in the laws of war, and that instrumental rationality drives specific norm changes. The liberalist trend of ideas and their manifestation in politics gradually changed the value judgments of Western countries as regards appropriate degrees of violent behaviour, to . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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