Pursuing a World of Law, Justice, and Peace

Dorothy V. Jones has done us all a great service by writing Toward a Just World, a book which traces the development of the concept of international justice during the first half of the twentieth century which, Jones contends, “set the tone and direction for the efforts made in the second half of the century and on into the next century as well” (p. xi). In this most readable and fascinating work, the author concentrates on the connections between justice and peace, rights, and law and what happens to the concept of justice when it takes on the cloak of internationalism. In Part I, “Conditions of Struggle,” Jones introduces her readers to The Hague of 1899, where legal scholars and world leaders established the principles for an international system of arbitration and laws. Of these ideas, Jones cites two which played a great role in the future: (1) that

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