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.
Author(s): Graham Parsons, Mark A. Wilson
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 283
Tags: Conflict Studies
Acknowledgements......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 10
Why Walzer, Still......Page 16
Contributions......Page 20
References......Page 28
I......Page 29
II......Page 30
III......Page 31
IV......Page 32
V......Page 35
VI......Page 40
Bibliography......Page 43
3 Territory, Self-Determination, and Defensive Rights......Page 45
Justice, Self-Determination, and Just War Theory......Page 46
Some Preliminaries: Why Territory? What Is Territory?......Page 48
Territorial Rights and Justice......Page 50
Territorial Rights and Self-Determination......Page 53
Territorial Rights and Defensive Rights......Page 56
Conclusion......Page 60
Bibliography......Page 63
Introduction......Page 64
Humanitarian Intervention’s Long History......Page 65
Justifying Humanitarian Intervention in the Age of the UN Charter......Page 71
The Development of RtoP......Page 76
The Impact of Recent Cases......Page 78
Conclusion......Page 81
Bibliography......Page 87
5 War, Collective Responsibility, and Contemporary Challenges to Democracy......Page 91
A Citizen-Soldier’s Guilt......Page 92
Responsibility of Democratic Citizens for an Unjust War......Page 96
Challenges to Democracy......Page 105
Conclusion......Page 108
Bibliography......Page 114
I......Page 116
II......Page 118
III......Page 121
IV......Page 123
V......Page 126
Bibliography......Page 133
7 Fighting Versus Waging War: Rethinking Jus in Bello After Afghanistan and Iraq......Page 136
The Gap in Traditional Jus in Bello......Page 137
A Contemporary Illustration: Afghanistan and Iraq......Page 142
Filling the Gap in Jus in Bello......Page 150
Conclusion......Page 159
Bibliography......Page 164
Britain 1939–42......Page 167
The Scale of the Problem......Page 170
Is the British Example Too Easy?......Page 171
A Proposal for a Legal Doctrine?......Page 172
The Moral Interpretation......Page 174
The Circumstances of the Regulation of Armed Conflict......Page 176
A Neutral Principle?......Page 180
Community or Civilization?......Page 183
“What Choice Do I Have?”......Page 186
A Dangerous Doctrine?......Page 189
Bibliography......Page 196
Introduction: The Triple Conjunction......Page 199
The Almost Irresistible Temptation: Indefinite Refinement......Page 200
Erroneous Exceptions......Page 205
Murderous Errors......Page 207
Dynamic Error and Reflexive Response......Page 208
Genuine Exceptions: Objection and Response......Page 211
Merely Pragmatic, Not Principled?......Page 213
Exceptions Out of Necessity? Never......Page 217
Bibliography......Page 222
I......Page 225
II......Page 226
III......Page 230
IV......Page 232
V......Page 234
Bibliography......Page 239
Discrimination in War......Page 241
Gender, Public War, and Sacrifice......Page 244
Walzer’s Soldiers......Page 249
The Argument from Material Non-Innocence......Page 250
The Communitarian Argument......Page 252
The Argument from the Purpose of the Military......Page 256
The Argument from Necessity......Page 260
The Rights of Combatants......Page 263
Bibliography......Page 266
Self-Determination and “The People”......Page 268
Gendered Soldiers and Civilians......Page 270
Supreme Emergency......Page 272
Just War’s Future......Page 273
Bibliography......Page 276
Index......Page 277
