Introduction
1: The Justification of War and International Order: From Past to Present / Hendrik Simon and Lothar Brock
Part I: Basic Theoretical Considerations: On War and Order(s)
2: Politics, Ethics, and History in Just War / Anthony F Lang
3: Imperialism, International Law, and War: Enduring Legacies and Curious Entanglements / Siddharth Mallavarapu
Part II: The Early Modern War Discourse: A Process of Transformation?
4: Princes' Justifications of War in Early Modern Europe: The Constitution of an International Community by Communication / Anuschka Tischer
5: The Legal Mechanics of Spanish Conquest: War and Peace in Early Colonial Peru / Arnulf Becker Lorca
6: Capitalism, British Grand Strategy, and the Peace Treaty of Utrecht: Towards a Historical Sociology of War- and Peace-making in the Construction of International Order / Benno Teschke
7: Kant's Rejection of Just War: International Order between Democratic Constitutionalism and Revolutionary Violence / Oliver Eberl
Part III: The Nineteenth Century as the Birth Era of the Modern War Discourse
8: Anarchy over Law? Towards a Genealogy of Modern War Justifications (1789-1918) / Hendrik Simon
9: Protection Emergencies: Justifying Measures Short of War in the British Empire / Lauren Benton
10: The Great War and International Law: German Justifications of Prevention and Pre-emptive Self-Defence / Isabel V. Hull
11: Salvation through War? The Ottoman Search for Sovereignty in 1914 / Aimee Genell and Mustafa Aksakal
12: Juridification, Politicization, and Circumvention of Law: (De-)Legitimizing Chemical Warfare before and after Ypres, 1899-1925 / Miloš Vec
Part IV: From the League to the UN: The Universe of Western International Legal Order Revealing its Self Contradictions
13: Peace through Law: Lessons from 1914 / B.S. Chimni
14: Re-Ordering the World from the Skies? The Emergence and Justification of Aerial Warfare / Thomas Hippler
15: The Justificatory Potential of International Law: National Socialists' Dreams of African Colonies / Felix Lange
Part V: ‘Democratic Wars' and the Post-Cold War International Order: Rise and Decline of the ‘Liberal Peace'
16: ‘What We Are Fighting For': Democracies' Justifications of Using Armed Force since the End of the Cold War / Anna Geis and Wolfgang Wagner
17: The War on Terror and the Law of War: Shaping International Order in the Context of Irregular Violence / Michael Stohl
18: ‘We Are Going to War.' Narratives of Self-Defence and Responsibility in Afghanistan War Documentaries / Axel Heck and Gabi Schlag
19: Justifying Interventions-The Case of ECOWAS in Liberia / Nina Wilén
20: Humanitarian Intervention: Justifying War for a New International Order / Beate Jahn
Part VI: Alternative Paths: Non-Western Perspectives on the Justification of War and International Order from Past to Present
21: The Islamic Law of War and Peace and the International Legal Order: Convergence or Dissonance? / Sohail H. Hashmi
22: In the Name of State Sovereignty? The Justification of War in Russian History and the Present / Paul Robinson and Mikhail Antonov
23: China's Approach to the Use of Force: A Short Review of China's Changing Attitudes towards the Justification of Humanitarian Intervention / Manjiao Chi
Part VII: International Rule of Law: Justifying, Contesting, and Perpetuating the Use of Force
24: Justified: Just War and the Ethics of Violence and World Order / Chris Brown
25: How Many Deaths Can Article 2(4) UN Charter Die? / Thilo Marauhn
26: Justification and Critique: Humanitarianism and Imperialism over Time / B.S. Chimni
27: The Justification and Critique of Coercion as World Order Politics / Christopher Daase and Nicole Deitelhoff
An Attempt at a Synthesis
28: Justifications of the Use of Force as Constitutive Elements of World Order-Points of Departure, Arrivals, and Moving Destinations / Lothar Brock and Hendrik Simon