title: Why Have We Criminalized Aggressive War
abstract: AB S TRACT.On the dominant view, accepted by both defenders and critics of the criminalization of aggression, the criminal wrong of aggressive war is inflicted on the attacked state.This view is mistaken.It is true that whether a war is criminally aggressive is determined ordinarily by whether it involves a particular form of interstate wrong.However, that is not why such wars are criminal.Aggressive war is a crime because it entails killing without justification.Five reasons explain why this is