Walzer and War (eBook)

Reading Just and Unjust Wars Today

Graham Parsons, Mark A. Wilson (Herausgeber)

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2020 | 1st ed. 2020
XVI, 275 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-41657-7 (ISBN)

Infos

This book presents ten original essays that reassess the meaning, relevance, and legacy of Michael Walzer's classic, Just and Unjust Wars. Written by leading figures in philosophy, theology, international politics and the military, the essays examine topics such as territorial rights, lessons from America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the practice of humanitarian intervention in light of experience, Walzer's notorious discussion of supreme emergencies, revisionist criticisms of noncombatant immunity, gender and the rights of combatants, the peacebuilding critique of just war theory, and the responsibility of soldiers for unjust wars. Collectively, these essays advance the debate in this important field and demonstrate the continued relevance of Walzer's work.

Graham Parsons is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Philosophy at the United States Military Academy at West Point, USA and was previously Fellow at the Individualisation of War Project, European University Institute, Italy. 

  

Mark A. Wilson is a Teaching Professor of Ethics and was previously Chair of the Returning Soldiers Project at Villanova University, USA.

Inhalt

Acknowledgements 6
Contents 8
Notes on Contributors 10
1 Introduction 16
Why Walzer, Still 16
Contributions 20
References 28
2 Prefaces and Postscripts: Walzer’s Just and Unjust Wars Today 29
I 29
II 30
III 31
IV 32
V 35
VI 40
Bibliography 43
3 Territory, Self-Determination, and Defensive Rights 45
Justice, Self-Determination, and Just War Theory 46
Some Preliminaries: Why Territory? What Is Territory? 48
Territorial Rights and Justice 50
Territorial Rights and Self-Determination 53
Territorial Rights and Defensive Rights 56
Conclusion 60
Bibliography 63
4 Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention: Interests and Consequences 64
Introduction 64
Humanitarian Intervention’s Long History 65
Justifying Humanitarian Intervention in the Age of the UN Charter 71
Arguing About Humanitarian Intervention 76
The Development of RtoP 76
The Impact of Recent Cases 78
Conclusion 81
Bibliography 87
5 War, Collective Responsibility, and Contemporary Challenges to Democracy 91
A Citizen-Soldier’s Guilt 92
Responsibility of Democratic Citizens for an Unjust War 96
Challenges to Democracy 105
Conclusion 108
Bibliography 114
6 Peacebuilding and Counterinsurgency: Alternatives to the Moral Dilemma of War 116
I 116
II 118
III 121
IV 123
V 126
Bibliography 133
7 Fighting Versus Waging War: Rethinking Jus in Bello After Afghanistan and Iraq 136
The Gap in Traditional Jus in Bello 137
A Contemporary Illustration: Afghanistan and Iraq 142
Filling the Gap in Jus in Bello 150
Conclusion 159
Bibliography 164
8 Reflections on “Supreme Emergency” 167
Britain 1939–42 167
The Scale of the Problem 170
Is the British Example Too Easy? 171
A Proposal for a Legal Doctrine? 172
The Moral Interpretation 174
The Circumstances of the Regulation of Armed Conflict 176
A Neutral Principle? 180
Community or Civilization? 183
“What Choice Do I Have?” 186
A Dangerous Doctrine? 189
Bibliography 196
9 Keeping Exceptions Exceptional in War: Could Any Revisionist Theory Guide Action? 199
Introduction: The Triple Conjunction 199
The Almost Irresistible Temptation: Indefinite Refinement 200
Erroneous Exceptions 205
Murderous Errors 207
Dynamic Error and Reflexive Response 208
Genuine Exceptions: Objection and Response 211
Merely Pragmatic, Not Principled? 213
Exceptions Out of Necessity? Never 217
Bibliography 222
10 Autonomy, Obedience, and Manifest Illegality 225
I 225
II 226
III 230
IV 232
V 234
Bibliography 239
11 Walzer’s Soldiers: Gender and the Rights of Combatants 241
Discrimination in War 241
Gender, Public War, and Sacrifice 244
Walzer’s Soldiers 249
The Argument from Material Non-Innocence 250
The Communitarian Argument 252
The Argument from the Purpose of the Military 256
The Argument from Necessity 260
The Rights of Combatants 263
Bibliography 266
12 Postscript 268
Self-Determination and “The People” 268
Gendered Soldiers and Civilians 270
Supreme Emergency 272
Just War’s Future 273
Bibliography 276
Index 277

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.4.2020
• Zusatzinfo: XVI, 275 p. 1 illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: Humanitarian Law • Human Rights • Just War Theory • Law of Armed Conflict • Military Service • state sovereignty
• ISBN-10: 3-030-41657-7 / 3030416577
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-41657-7 / 9783030416577