• Introduction
• 1: Hendrik Simon and Lothar Brock: The Justification of War and International Order. From Past to Present
• Part I. Basic Theoretical Considerations: On War and Order(s)
• 2: Anthony Lang, Jr.: Politics, Ethics and History in Just War
• 3: Siddharth Mallavarapu: Imperialism, International Law and War: Enduring Legacies and Curious Entanglements
• Part II. The Early Modern War Discourse: A Process of Transformation?
• 4: Anuschka Tischer: Princes' Justifications of War in Early Modern Europe: the Constitution of an International Community by Communication
• 5: Arnulf Becker Lorca: The Legal Mechanics of Spanish Conquest: War and Peace in Early Colonial Peru
• 6: Benno Teschke: Capitalism, British Grand Strategy and the Peace Treaty of Utrecht: Towards A Historical Sociology of War- and Peacemaking in the Construction of International Order
• 7: Oliver Eberl: Kant's Rejection of Just War: International Order between Democratic Constitutionalism and Revolutionary Violence
• Part III. The 19th Century as the Birth Era of the Modern War Discourse
• 8: Hendrik Simon: Anarchy over Law? Towards a Genealogy of Modern War Justifications (1789-1918)
• 9: Lauren Benton: Protection Emergencies: Justifying Measures Short of War in the British Empire
• 10: Isabel V. Hull: The Great War and International Law: German Justifications of Prevention and Pre-emptive Self-Defence
• 11: Aimee Genell and Mustafa Aksakal: Salvation through War? The Ottoman Search for Sovereignty in 1914
• 12: Miloš Vec: Juridification, Politicisation, and Circumvention of Law: (De-)Legitimising Chemical Warfare before and after Ypres, 1899-1925
• Part IV. From the League to the UN: The Universe of Western International Legal Order Revealing its Self-Contradictions
• 13: B.S. Chimni: Peace through Law: Lessons from 1914
• 14: Thomas Hippler: Re-Ordering the World from the Skies? The Emergence and Justification of Aerial Warfare
• 15: Felix Lange: The Justificatory Potential of International Law. National Socialists' Dreams of African Colonies
• Part V. 'Democratic Wars' and the Post-Cold War International Order: Rise and Decline of the 'Liberal Peace'
• 16: Anna Geis and Wolfgang Wagner: 'What We Are Fighting For': Democracies' Justifications of Using Armed Force since the End of the Cold War
• 17: Michael Stohl: The War on Terror and the Law of War: Shaping International Order in the Context of Irregular Violence
• 18: Axel Heck and Gabi Schlag: 'We Are Going to War.' Narratives of Self-Defence and Responsibility in Afghanistan War Documentaries
• 19: Nina Wilén: Justifying Interventions - The Case of ECOWAS in Liberia
• 20: Beate Jahn: Humanitarian Intervention: Justifying War for a New International Order
• Part VI. Alternative Paths: Non-Western Perspectives on the Justification of War and International Order from Past to Present
• 21: Sohail H. Hashmi: The Islamic Law of War and Peace and the International Legal Order: Convergence or Dissonance?
• 22: Paul Robinson and Mikhail Antonov: In the Name of State Sovereignty? The Justification of War in Russian History and the Present
• 23: Manjiao Chi: China's Approach to the Use of Force: A Short Review of China's Changing Attitudes towards the Justification of Humanitarian Intervention
• Paty VII. International Rule of Law: Justifying, Contesting and Perpetuating the Use of Force
• 24: Chris Brown: Justified: Just War and the Ethics of Violence and World Order
• 25: Thilo Marauhn: How Many Deaths Can Art 2 (4) UN Charter Die?
• 26: B.S. Chimni: Justification and Critique: Humanitarianism and Imperialism over Time
• 27: Christopher Daase and Nicole Deitelhoff: The Justification and Critique of Coercion as World Order Politics
• An Attempt at a Synthesis
• 28: Lothar Brock and Hendrik Simon: Justifications of the Use of Force as Constitutive Elements of World Order - Points of Departure, Arrivals and Moving Destinations