The Problem of War — Rawls and the Law of Peoples

Abstract

This article considers the Law of Peoples, written by the late John Rawls. Rawls' text occurs as an inheritance of Immanuel Kant's approach to the problem of war. Drawing upon the approaches to the problem of war given by Immanuel Kant and by G.W.F. Hegel the article considers the viability of Rawls' approach to the problem of war and the questions that his account opens for jurisprudence. Law, Culture and the Humanities 2007; 3: 244—265