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Robert Nozick: Anarchy, State, and Utopia and Libertarian Responses (1974–1992)

1974 - 1992

Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine and intervention cases (2001–2011)

2001 - 2011

Neo‑Kantian and 20th‑century Kantian revivals in moral philosophy (1870–1945)

1871 - 1945

NATO intervention in Kosovo and contemporaneous legal/ethical debates (1998–1999)

1998 - 1999

Medieval scholastic formulations on war, especially Thomas Aquinas (1200–1300)

400 - 1300

Marxist and anti-imperialist critiques of just war theory (19th–20th centuries)

1907 - 1961

Kantian ethics and German Idealism: Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel's responses (1785–1830)

1785 - 1820

Just peace and abolitionist movements challenging just war frameworks (1990–present)

1992 - 2025

John Stuart Mill's Utilitarian Writings and Social Theory (1830–1873)

1831 - 1873

Jeremy Bentham's Legal and Moral Reform Campaigns (1776–1832)

1776 - 1832

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract and Revolutionary Politics (1762–1799)

1762 - 1799

Indigenous and Postcolonial Critiques of Social Contract Justifications for Colonization (17th–20th centuries)

1550 - 2014

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