Parsons / Wilson Walzer and War

Reading Just and Unjust Wars Today
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-41657-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 283 Seiten

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parsons, Graham

Wilson, Mark A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1; Acknowledgements;6
2; Contents;8
3; Notes on Contributors;10
4;1 Introduction;16
4.1;Why Walzer, Still;16
4.2;Contributions;20
4.3;References;28
5;2 Prefaces and Postscripts: Walzer’s Just and Unjust Wars Today;29
5.1;I;29
5.2;II;30
5.3;III;31
5.4;IV;32
5.5;V;35
5.6;VI;40
5.7;Bibliography;43
6;3 Territory, Self-Determination, and Defensive Rights;45
6.1;Justice, Self-Determination, and Just War Theory;46
6.2;Some Preliminaries: Why Territory? What Is Territory?;48
6.3;Territorial Rights and Justice;50
6.4;Territorial Rights and Self-Determination;53
6.5;Territorial Rights and Defensive Rights;56
6.6;Conclusion;60
6.7;Bibliography;63
7;4 Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention: Interests and Consequences;64
7.1;Introduction;64
7.2;Humanitarian Intervention’s Long History;65
7.3;Justifying Humanitarian Intervention in the Age of the UN Charter;71
7.4;Arguing About Humanitarian Intervention;76
7.4.1;The Development of RtoP;76
7.4.2;The Impact of Recent Cases;78
7.5;Conclusion;81
7.6;Bibliography;87
8;5 War, Collective Responsibility, and Contemporary Challenges to Democracy;91
8.1;A Citizen-Soldier’s Guilt;92
8.2;Responsibility of Democratic Citizens for an Unjust War;96
8.3;Challenges to Democracy;105
8.4;Conclusion;108
8.5;Bibliography;114
9;6 Peacebuilding and Counterinsurgency: Alternatives to the Moral Dilemma of War;116
9.1;I;116
9.2;II;118
9.3;III;121
9.4;IV;123
9.5;V;126
9.6;Bibliography;133
10;7 Fighting Versus Waging War: Rethinking Jus in Bello After Afghanistan and Iraq;136
10.1;The Gap in Traditional Jus in Bello;137
10.2;A Contemporary Illustration: Afghanistan and Iraq;142
10.3;Filling the Gap in Jus in Bello;150
10.4;Conclusion;159
10.5;Bibliography;164
11;8 Reflections on “Supreme Emergency”;167
11.1;Britain 1939–42;167
11.2;The Scale of the Problem;170
11.3;Is the British Example Too Easy?;171
11.4;A Proposal for a Legal Doctrine?;172
11.5;The Moral Interpretation;174
11.6;The Circumstances of the Regulation of Armed Conflict;176
11.7;A Neutral Principle?;180
11.8;Community or Civilization?;183
11.9;“What Choice Do I Have?”;186
11.10;A Dangerous Doctrine?;189
11.11;Bibliography;196
12;9 Keeping Exceptions Exceptional in War: Could Any Revisionist Theory Guide Action?;199
12.1;Introduction: The Triple Conjunction;199
12.2;The Almost Irresistible Temptation: Indefinite Refinement;200
12.3;Erroneous Exceptions;205
12.4;Murderous Errors;207
12.5;Dynamic Error and Reflexive Response;208
12.6;Genuine Exceptions: Objection and Response;211
12.7;Merely Pragmatic, Not Principled?;213
12.8;Exceptions Out of Necessity? Never;217
12.9;Bibliography;222
13;10 Autonomy, Obedience, and Manifest Illegality;225
13.1;I;225
13.2;II;226
13.3;III;230
13.4;IV;232
13.5;V;234
13.6;Bibliography;239
14;11 Walzer’s Soldiers: Gender and the Rights of Combatants;241
14.1;Discrimination in War;241
14.2;Gender, Public War, and Sacrifice;244
14.3;Walzer’s Soldiers;249
14.3.1;The Argument from Material Non-Innocence;250
14.3.2;The Communitarian Argument;252
14.3.3;The Argument from the Purpose of the Military;256
14.3.4;The Argument from Necessity;260
14.4;The Rights of Combatants;263
14.5;Bibliography;266
15;12 Postscript;268
15.1;Self-Determination and “The People”;268
15.2;Gendered Soldiers and Civilians;270
15.3;Supreme Emergency;272
15.4;Just War’s Future;273
15.5;Bibliography;276
16;Index;277