Abstract
What is the specific wrong that constitutes aggression? Years ago, I argued that the wrong was to force people to fight and die in defense of the state that protects their common life and the territory on which that common life is lived (it has to be lived somewhere). It is not just the crossing of the border that constitutes the wrong but the threat—to the community and its members—that the crossing signifies.
Keywords
War, Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1949, Aggression (International law), Self defense (International law), Sovereignty, International