Author : Larry May
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 39,89 MB
Release : 2015-08-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1107121868
The first major philosophical treatment of contingent pacifism, offering an account of pacifism from the just war tradition.
Author : Lothar Brock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 31,70 MB
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 0192634631
The history of war is also a history of its justification. The contributions to this book argue that the justification of war rarely happens as empty propaganda. While it is directed at mobilizing support and reducing resistance, it is not purely instrumental. Rather, the justification of force is part of an incessant struggle over what is to count as justifiable behaviour in a given historical constellation of power, interests, and norms. This way, the justification of specific wars interacts with international order as a normative frame of reference for dealing with conflict. The justification of war shapes this order, and is being shaped by it. As the justification of specific wars entails a critique of war in general, the use of force in international relations has always been accompanied by political and scholarly discourses on its appropriateness. In much of the pertinent literature the dominating focus is on theoretical or conceptual debates as a mirror of how international normative orders evolve. In contrast, the focus of the present volume is on theory and political practice as sources for the re- and de-construction of the way in which the justification of war and international order interact. With contributions from international law, history, and international relations, and from Western and non-Western perspectives, this book offers a unique collection of papers exploring the continuities and changes in war discourses as they respond to and shape normative orders from early modern times to the present.
Author : Glenn A. Moots
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,38 MB
Release : 2018
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780806160139
"Explores how the American Revolution's opposing sides wrestled with thorny moral and legal questions with an eye to the justice and legality of entering armed conflict; the choices made by officers and soldiers in combat; and attempts to arrive at defensible terms of peace"--
Author : Christopher Finlay
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 26,6 MB
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1509526536
The idea that war is sometimes justified is deeply embedded in public consciousness. But it is only credible so long as we believe that the ethical standards of just war are in fact realizable in practice. In this engaging book, Christopher Finlay elucidates the assumptions underlying just war theory and defends them from a range of objections, arguing that it is a regrettable but necessary reflection of the moral realities of international politics. Using a range of historical and contemporary examples, he demonstrates the necessity of employing the theory on the basis of careful moral appraisal of real-life political landscapes and striking a balance between theoretical ideals and the practical realities of conflict. This book will be a crucial guide to the complexities of just war theory for all students and scholars of the ethics and political theory of war.
Author : Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 37,11 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Military art and science
ISBN :
Author : David G. Winter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 38,73 MB
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 0199355584
"Roots of War presents systematic archival, experimental, and survey research on three psychological factors leading to war--desire for power, exaggerated perception of threat, and justification for force -- set in comparative historical accounts of the unexpected 1914 escalation to world war and the peacefully - resolved 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis."--Provided by publisher.
Author : George P. Fletcher
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 25,63 MB
Release : 2008-03-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 0195183088
Recoge: Murder among nations -- How to talk about self-defense -- A theory of legitimate defense -- The six elements of legitimate defense -- Excusing international aggression -- Humanitarian intervention -- Preemptive and preventitive wars -- The collective dimension of war.
Author : Nicholas Kerton-Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 21,60 MB
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1135169349
This book examines the justifications for, and practice of, war by the US since 1990, and examines four case studies: the Gulf War, Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. The author undertakes an examination of presidential speeches and public documents from this period to determine the focal points on which the respective presidents based their rhetoric for war. The work then examines the practice of war in the light of these justifications to determine whether changes in justifications correlate with changes in practice. In particular, the justificatory discourse finds four key themes that emerge in the presidential discourses, which are tracked across the case studies and point to the fundamental driving force in US motivations for going to war. The four key themes which emerge from the data are: international law or norms; human rights; national interest; and egoist morality (similar too, but wider than, 'exceptionalism'). This analysis shows that 9/11 resulted in a radical shift away from an international law and human rights-focused justificatory discourse, to one which was overwhelmingly dominated by egoist-morality justifications and national interest. This book will be of much interest to students of US foreign policy, humanitarian intervention, Security Studies, and IR theory.
Author : Christine Chinkin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 13,60 MB
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1107171210
Examines the difficulties in applying international law to recent armed conflicts known as 'new wars'.
Author : David Fisher
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 26,14 MB
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 019161582X
With the ending of the strategic certainties of the Cold War, the need for moral clarity over when, where and how to start, conduct and conclude war has never been greater. There has been a recent revival of interest in the just war tradition. But can a medieval theory help us answer twenty-first century security concerns? David Fisher explores how just war thinking can and should be developed to provide such guidance. His in-depth study examines philosophical challenges to just war thinking, including those posed by moral scepticism and relativism. It explores the nature and grounds of moral reasoning; the relation between public and private morality; and how just war teaching needs to be refashioned to provide practical guidance not just to politicians and generals but to ordinary service people. The complexity and difficulty of moral decision-making requires a new ethical approach - here characterised as virtuous consequentialism - that recognises the importance of both the internal quality and external effects of agency; and of the moral principles and virtues needed to enact them. Having reinforced the key tenets of just war thinking, Fisher uses these to address contemporary security issues, including the changing nature of war, military pre-emption and torture, the morality of the Iraq war, and humanitarian intervention. He concludes that the just war tradition provides not only a robust but an indispensable guide to resolve the security challenges of the twenty-first century.
