... concludes that the acceptance of moral truncated victory highlights one of the main critiques of this new framework, namely that it risks creating a morally problematic regime of perpetual force, or vis perpetua. Just war theory jus ad vim arms supply war against Ukraine Germany armed conflict...

... the just war tradition to the issue of unilateral and minilateral SRM usage. This article is concerned with the contribution just war/securitization theories can make to our understanding of the debate surrounding climate engineering. It scrutinizes and deepens existing attempts by just war scholars...

... unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract This article seeks to bridge the interdisciplinary gap between just war theory (JWT) and international relations (IR) by introducing into the former discipline key theoretical and empirical...

... governments that inspire such rigorous thinking about the role of victory in war and its moral justifications is too serious of a problem to remain bound to a Westphalian and liberal state framework that shapes the spatial and temporal limits of a just-war approach to war and violence. “Permanent war” is less...

.../standard_publication_model ) Abstract Opposition to physician-assisted suicide is widespread in Christian ethics. However, on a topic as controversial as physician-assisted suicide, no one can reasonably speak for “the Christian” perspective. Natural-law and, specifically, just-war thinking are claimed in the Christian...

... from a neutral state, such as India. Many Americans recognize that placing a much higher value on compatriot lives over foreign lives is morally problematic, but choose to do so anyway. public opinion international security just war theory nationalism survey experiments civilian casualties...

... military actions, but there is a long history of applying the same reasoning to forms of economic coercion, like blockades and sieges, that stretches back centuries through the writings of some of the just war tradition's most influential writers (for example, Vattel 2008 ; Walzer 2006 ). Second, just...

... of the hostilities that occasioned it would be extinguished ( Pritchett 1974 ). ¹¹ Setting these points aside for the moment, this essay will have been a success if it persuades scholars who are inclined to take the just war tradition seriously to consider the limiting effects of how it is typically...

...-mail: [email protected] . 2017 Abstract The laws of war are under mounting pressure and yet recent developments in the ethics of war have encouraged a growing disjunction between ethics and the law. Is this a problem, and does just war have a responsibility to address it? How then should...

... fashion? In a survey of more than 100 international studies experts, the 18 major conflicts fought by the United States since 1900 were assessed. World War II was rated as the most just, whereas the Iraq Invasion was considered the most unjust. Respondents also scored each conflict under seven just war...

...Massimo Renzo Abstract Just war theory is dominated by two positions. According to the traditional view, combatants both on the just and the unjust side have an equal right to fight, which is not affected by the justice of the cause pursued by their state. According to a recent revisionist account...

... states and regions protected against aggression, and the poorest of people must be protected against destitution and starvation. Just wars cannot end with new forms of persecution replacing those the military force was used to defeat or with people without food, medicines or stable shelter, in hiding...

... resulting from and contributing to sectarian violence within Iraq, and Iraq's neighbours Syria and Jordan hosting the vast majority of refugees. Using the burgeoning third pillar of just war theory (JWT), jus post bellum, or just peace, this paper will examine what duties the US has toward...

... those who make the decision to go to war to deal first and foremost with matters of fact, with the “situation on the ground,” as it were. Has an act of aggression occurred? Is an attack imminent? Is the use of force necessary to save innocent lives? These are the kinds of questions just war theory asks...

... and three types of structured group activity (relating to “moral dilemmas” associated with each case) might be employed to encourage active learning and teaching. ethics and international studies active learning Just War Tradition hard cases moral dilemmas undergraduate teaching The ethics of war...

... in the light of the just war tradition and liberalism. An ethical case for the importance of restraint in moral decision making, especially with regard to unnecessary but desirable wars within liberalist approaches to foreign policy, is presented. ethics foreign policy decision making just war liberalism...

... tissue? Does the use of fetal tissue entail cooperation in abortion? To answer these questions I develop a theoretical framework by combining the paradigm of just-war reasoning with canons governing the use of cadaverous tissue. The kinds of safeguards provided by this paradigm allow fetal tissue...

... international actors compete under conditions where escalation avoidance limits the measures they would rationally employ. It should be clear from this analysis that grey zone norms differ from those of warfighting in important ways. First, unlike Just War Theory, which condemns at least...

.... This was an important feature of medieval just-war doctrine, and it is seen at its clearest in the original medieval practice of reprisals. It remains at the core of the modern law as the principle of reparation. The utilitarian approach is oriented toward inducing the norm-violating party to alter its conduct...

... intention suffices to render resort to international war just. This extremely undemanding just war theory aligns well with Hobbes’s realism about international relations. This chapter has analysed Hobbes’s reductionism about the principles of international ethics. Across his works, Hobbes insists...