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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Brendan Howe and Boris Kondoch -- Introduction / Brendan Howe and Boris Kondoch -- Aggression, the Prohibition of the Use of Force and Northeast Asia / Boris Kondoch -- East Asian Values and Humanitarian Intervention / Brendan Howe -- Between Harmonious World and “War of Order”: Chinese Meanings of Just War and Their Reemergence / Nadine Godehardt -- From Ideology to Pragmatism: China’s Position on Humanitarian Intervention in the Post-Cold War Era / Jonathan E. Davis -- The Paradox of Non-use of “Use of Force” Option in Japan’s Foreign and Security Policy Consensus / Toshiya Hoshino -- “The Crime of Aggression” and Japan / Madoka Futamura -- Questioning the Legality and Legitimacy of a Preventive Strike by the U.S. to Disarm North Korea of Nuclear Weapons / Dan Ernst -- Bibliography / Brendan Howe and Boris Kondoch -- Index / Brendan Howe and Boris Kondoch.

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In The Legality and Legitimacy of the Use of Force in Northeast Asia , Brendan Howe and Boris Kondoch bring together distinguished authors with extensive Northeast Asian backgrounds to offer a diverse and comprehensive evaluation of when it is right, from regional perspectives, to use force in international relations. The use of force in international relations has been severely curtailed by pragmatic considerations of international order, and further constrained by positive international law. In Northeast Asia, the prohibition of aggression has remained uncontested. Strict adherence to non-intervention in Northeast Asia has, however, increasingly come under attack from internal and external normative communities. The contributors, therefore, use regional legal, normative, cultural, and historical insights to shed light on the contemporary positions of Northeast Asian political communities with regard to the use of force.