The Role of Rights in the Social Construction of Wars: From the Crusades to Humanitarian Interventions
Tal Dingott Alkopher
How did rights become something that people are fighting for, and willing to die in the international arena? This article seeks answer this question through lens of social constructivism, by exploring constitutive impact intersubjective ideas norms— concepts rights—on construction wars. By doing so challenges realists' main focus on `Power' interpreting human conflict, as well English School's writing war use force which is preoccupied with articulating normative theories rather than treating `normative structures' scientific analytical tools order explain why how norms (of a Hobbesian nature included) matter. To illustrate theoretical claim, examines two distinct historical epochs: medieval epoch, characterized conceptions divine institutionalized practices crusade, late twentieth century, witnessed rise institutionalization an norm along emergence new practice humanitarian
Millennium: Journal of International Studies