ABSTRACT
This chapter constructs a conceptual schema and coherent concept of rights as conceived from the constructivist standpoint. It also offers a general definition of rights containing an essentialist logical element that is relevant to any concept of rights, whether human rights, and divine rights. The schema also includes definitions and assumptions about rights, and connects and distinguishes between rights and other variables. It examines the implications of various ideas relating to rights and rights practices. The chapter focuses on constitutive connections, on different levels, between rights internationally defined and international wars. These connections are present at the social structures level, the social-emotional level, and the international-institutional level. The first level on which rights influence international wars is on the social structures level. The second level on which rights influence international wars is on the level of socio-psychological processes. The third level on which rights have a real and notable influence on international wars is through the discourse of just war.
