Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents ix
3. Introduction 1
4. PART I THE MYSTICAL VIRTUES
5. chapter 1 Hobbes and the Mystical Sanctity of the State 21
6. chapter 2 Frenzy Let Loose, or Grotius and Vattel Seek to Civilize War While Kant Looks for a Way Out of the Hobbesian Trap 33
7. chapter 3 Carl Schmitt Dreams of Westphalia 49
8. chapter 4 The Great War, or Millions Die but Not the Mystical Sanctity of the State 65
9. chapter 5 From the Ottoman Empire to European Colonialism, or Atrocity, Barbarous and Civilized 82
10. PART II NUREMBERG AND THE AGGRESSION PARADIGM
11. chapter 6 The German Rupture 111
12. chapter 7 Nuremberg’s Aggression Paradigm 130
13. chapter 8 Nuremberg’s Crimes Against Humanity: Atrocity Becomes a Crime, with a Caveat 163
14. chapter 9 The Twelve Subsequent Trials 185
15. chapter 10 The Aggression Paradigm Further Unravels in Tokyo 204
16. chapter 11 The Framing and Undoing of the Aggression Paradigm at the UN 220
17. PART III THE ATROCITY PARADIGM
18. chapter 12 Genocide: Its Meaning and Its Convention 237
19. chapter 13 The Eichmann Trial Establishes the Principle of Universality 255
20. chapter 14 The Atrocity Paradigm Explodes Law’s Temporal Limits 284
21. chapter 15 Aggression Against Atrocity 303
22. chapter 16 Putin in Ukraine: Aggression as Atrocity 343
23. Conclusion 357
24. Acknowledgments 367
25. Notes 369
26. Index 417