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| just and unjust wars michael walzer: Just and Unjust Wars Michael Walzer, 2015-08-11 “A classic in the field” (New York Times), this is a penetrating investigation into moral and ethical questions raised by war, drawing on examples from antiquity to the present. Just and Unjust Wars has forever changed how we think about the ethics of conflict. In this modern classic, political philosopher Michael Walzer examines the moral issues that arise before, during, and after the wars we fight. Reaching from the Athenian attack on Melos, to the Mai Lai massacre, to the war in Afghanistan and beyond, Walzer mines historical and contemporary accounts and the testimony of participants, decision makers, and victims to explain when war is justified and what ethical limitations apply to those who wage it. |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: Arguing About War Michael Walzer, 2008-10-01 Michael Walzer is one of the world’s most eminent philosophers on the subject of war and ethics. Now, for the first time since his classic Just and Unjust Wars was published almost three decades ago, this volume brings together his most provocative arguments about contemporary military conflicts and the ethical issues they raise.The essays in the book are divided into three sections. The first deals with issues such as humanitarian intervention, emergency ethics, and terrorism. The second consists of Walzer’s responses to particular wars, including the first Gulf War, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. And the third presents an essay in which Walzer imagines a future in which war might play a less significant part in our lives. In his introduction, Walzer reveals how his thinking has changed over time.Written during a period of intense debate over the proper use of armed force, this book gets to the heart of difficult problems and argues persuasively for a moral perspective on war. |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: Thick and Thin Michael Walzer, 2019-02-28 In Thick and Thin: Moral Argument at Home and Abroad, Michael Walzer revises and extends the arguments in his influential Spheres of Justice, framing his ideas about justice, social criticism, and national identity in light of the new political world that has arisen in the past three decades. Walzer focuses on two different but interrelated kinds of moral argument: maximalist and minimalist, thick and thin, local and universal. This new edition has a new preface and afterword, written by the author, describing how the reasoning of the book connects with arguments he made in Just and Unjust Wars about the morality of warfare. Walzer's highly literate and fascinating blend of philosophy and historical analysis will appeal not only to those interested in the polemics surrounding Spheres of Justice and Just and Unjust Wars but also to intelligent readers who are more concerned with getting the arguments right. |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: Walzer and War Graham Parsons, Mark A. Wilson, 2020-06-13 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. |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: Obligations Michael Walzer, 1970 In this collection of essays, Michael Walzer discusses how obligations are incurred, sustained, and (sometimes) abandoned by citizens of the modern state and members of political parties and movements as they respond to and participate in the most crucial and controversial aspects of citizenship: resistance, dissent, civil disobedience, war, and revolution. Walzer approaches these issues with insight and historical perspective, exhibiting an extraordinary understanding for rebels, radicals, and rational revolutionaries. The reader will not always agree with Walzer but he cannot help being stimulated, excited, challenged, and moved to thoughtful analysis. |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: Reading Walzer Yitzhak Benbaji, Naomi Sussmann, 2013-10-30 Michael Walzer is one of the world’s leading philosophers and political theorists. In addition to his best-known books such as Spheres of Justice, and Just and Unjust Wars, he has contributed to contemporary political debates beyond academia in the New York Times, the New Yorker and Dissent. Reading Walzer is the first book to assess the full range of Walzer’s work. An outstanding team of international contributors consider the following topics in relation to Walzer’s work: the moral standing of nation states individual responsibility and laws governing the conduct of war debates over intervention and non-intervention human and minority rights moral and cultural pluralism equality justice Walzer’s radicalism and role as a critic. All chapters have been specially commissioned for this collection, and Walzer’s responses to his critics makes Reading Walzer essential reading for students of political philosophy and political theory. |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: The Company Of Critics Michael Walzer, 2002-07-04 The Company of Critics provides a fascinating survey of the terrain of social criticism in the last century. Organizing the book as a series of eleven intellectual biographies, Michael Walzer tells not just the dramatic story of the cultural and political radical but also the more personal story of the meaning of criticism to the critic. By looking at the life and work of Julien Benda, Randolph Bourne, Martin Buber, Antonio Gramsci, Ignazio Silone, George Orwell, Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, Herbert Marcuse, Michel Foucault, and Breyten Breytenbach, Walzer explains the role of the public intellectual in the context of what he identifies as the triumphs and catastrophes of our time: the two world wars, the struggles of the working class, national liberation, feminism, totalitarian politics.The new edition, featuring a new preface, contains Walzer's thoughts on his own role as a public intellectual and, most important, the challenges that lie ahead for the engaged social critic. With its unique emphasis on life as a proving ground for thought, The Company of Critics is a necessary addition to the literature of social and political engagement both within and outside of the academy. |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: Spheres Of Justice Michael Walzer, 2008-08-05 The distinguished political philosopher and author of the widely acclaimed Just and Unjust Wars analyzes how society distributes not just wealth and power but other social “goods” like honor, education, work, free time—even love. |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: Just War Thinkers Daniel R. Brunstetter, Cian O’Driscoll, 2017-08-09 This volume offers a set of concise and accessible introductions to the seminal figures in the historical development of the just war tradition. In what, if any, circumstances are political communities justified in going to war? And what limits should apply to the conduct of any such war? The just war tradition is a body of thought that helps us think through these very questions. Its core ideas have been subject to fierce debate for over 2,000 years. Yet they continue to play a prominent role in how political and military leaders address the challenges posed by the use of force in international society. Until now there has been no text that offers concise and accessible introductions to the key figures associated with the tradition. Stepping into this breach, Just War Thinkers provides a set of clear but detailed essays by leading experts on nineteen seminal thinkers, from Cicero to Jeff McMahan. This volume challenges the reader to think about how traditions are constituted—who is included and excluded, and how that is determined—and how they serve to enable, constrain, and indeed channel subsequent thought, debate, and exchange. This book will be of much interest to students of just war tradition and theory, ethics and war, philosophy, security studies and IR. |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: Michael Walzer on War and Justice Brian Orend, 2000 This is a book about justice: the justice of a nation's major institutions and the justice of the interaction of nations on the world stage. Michael Walzer, one of North America's most prominent social critics, has written acclaimed works about the morali |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: Just War Against Terror Jean Bethke Elshtain, 2003-04-14 The University of Chicago political philosopher applies just war theory to the war on terror and concludes that pacifism is an inappropriate response to the events of September 11, 2001. 35,000 first printing. |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: Killing in War Jeff McMahan, 2009-04-23 Killing a person is in general among the most seriously wrongful forms of action, yet most of us accept that it can be permissible to kill people on a large scale in war. Does morality become more permissive in a state of war? Jeff McMahan argues that conditions in war make no difference to what morality permits and the justifications for killing people are the same in war as they are in other contexts, such as individual self-defence. This view is radically at odds with the traditional theory of the just war and has implications that challenge common sense views. McMahan argues, for example, that it is wrong to fight in a war that is unjust because it lacks a just cause. |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: Justice is Steady Work Michael Walzer, Astrid von Busekist, 2020-09-25 Michael Walzer is one of the pre-eminent political theorists in the world today and also a prominent public intellectual. His conception of social justice and his work on just and unjust wars have been hugely influential in political theory and, at the same time, he has taken a public stand on many of the great issues of our time, from the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War to 9/11, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Iraq War. He stands out among political theorists and philosophers by virtue of his attention to historical reality and his sensitivity to social and political context. Convinced that philosophical debate is only useful if it is rooted in the concrete practices and morality of societies, he develops a form of social critique that is opposed to a disembodied philosophy which does not respond to concerns of ordinary people. For Walzer, it is useless to try to write a theory of justice: the challenge is to think through issues of justice in relation to the particular contexts in which people live out their lives. The core strength of his work is his practical instinct: if individuals are contextualized, critique must be too. This book takes the form of an extended conversation between Walzer and Astrid von Busekist, ranging from Walzer’s biography and political activism to his work on war, justice and Judaism. Weaving together his theoretical work and his political activism, it provides an outstanding introduction to the life and work of one of the most influential political theorists of our time. |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: The Origins of the Second World War R. J. Overy, 2014-01-14 The Origins of the Second World War explores the reasons why the Second World War broke out in September 1939 and not sooner, and why a European war expanded into world war by 1941. Richard Overy argues that this was not just 'Hitler's War' but one that had its roots and origins in the decline of the old empires of Britain and France and the rise of ambitious new powers in Germany, Italy and Japan. Any explanation of the outbreak of hostilities must be multinational in scope taking into account the basic instability of the international system that had still not recovered from the shocks of the Great War. In this third edition: The role of Italy in the approach to war has been re-evaluated; Overy addresses recent revelations about Soviet policy in the 1930s, particularly exploring Soviet military planning and preparations; Arguments about Chamberlain and his policy of appeasement are rethought and reassessed. This new edition has now been completely overhauled, updated, expanded and reset. With a comprehensive documents section, colour plates, Guide to Who's Who, and a Chronology, The Origins of the Second World War will provide an invaluable introduction to any student of this fascinating period.--Page 4 of cover |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: Regicide and Revolution Michael Walzer, 1993-03-25 Maintaining that the trial and public execution of Louis XVI was an absolutely essential part of the French Revolution, Walzer discusses two types of regicide: the first, committed by would-be kings or their agents, left the monarchy's mystique and divine right intact, while the second was a revolutionary act intended to destroy it completely. Walzer defends the trial and execution of Louis XVI as necessary, since it not only tried to destroy the monarchy's mystique and divine right, but also required the deputies to fully explain their guiding philosophies and applied the rules of judicial process to establish equality before the law. New to this edition is an appendix containing Revolutionary Justice, Ferenc Feher's classic rebuttal to Walzer's thesis, and Walzer's response, The King's Trial and the Political Culture of the Revolution. |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: When War Is Unjust, Second Edition John Howard Yoder, 2001-10-10 Can a war really be considered justÓ? If so, which wars, and under what circumstances? If not, why not? When War is Unjust provides a systematic exploration of these questions for students of ethics, Christian doctrine, and history. For centuries the just war tradition has been the dominant framework for Christian thinking about organized conflict. This tradition sets a number of specific conditions which must be satisfied before a particular war can termed justÓ and therefore supportable by the faithful Christians. John Howard Yoder, himself a pacifist, approaches the just war theory on its own terms. His purpose: to introduce the student to this just-war tradition, and to offer a critical framework for evaluating its tenets and applying them to real conflicts. When War is Unjust takes the just war tradition seriously, and holds its proponents accountable in a critical debate about when - if ever - war can be justified. It is a readable and thought-provoking primer on the history, criteria, and application of just war teaching in Christian churches. |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: A Foreign Policy for the Left Michael Walzer, 2018-01-09 Something that has been needed for decades: a leftist foreign policy with a clear moral basis Foreign policy, for leftists, used to be relatively simple. They were for the breakdown of capitalism and its replacement with a centrally planned economy. They were for the workers against the moneyed interests and for colonized peoples against imperial (Western) powers. But these easy substitutes for thought are becoming increasingly difficult. Neo-liberal capitalism is triumphant, and the workers’ movement is in radical decline. National liberation movements have produced new oppressions. A reflexive anti-imperialist politics can turn leftists into apologists for morally abhorrent groups. In Michael Walzer’s view, the left can no longer (in fact, could never) take automatic positions but must proceed from clearly articulated moral principles. In this book, adapted from essays published in Dissent, Walzer asks how leftists should think about the international scene—about humanitarian intervention and world government, about global inequality and religious extremism—in light of a coherent set of underlying political values. |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: Kant and the End of War Howard Williams, 2012-01-06 The paperback edition (published in 2016) includes a new preface with a discussion of recent examples. Kant stands almost unchallenged as one of the major thinkers of the European Enlightenment. This book brings the ideas of his critical philosophy to bear on one of the leading political and legal questions of our age: under what circumstances, if any, is recourse to war legally and morally justifiable? This issue was strikingly brought to the fore by the 2003 war in Iraq. The book critiques the tradition of just war thinking and suggests how international law and international relations can be viewed from an alternative perspective that aims at a more pacific system of states. Instead of seeing the theory of just war as providing a stabilizing context within which international politics can be carried out, Williams argues that the theory contributes to the current unstable international condition. The just war tradition is not the silver lining in a generally dark horizon but rather an integral feature of the dark horizon of current world politics. Kant was one of the first and most profound thinkers to moot this understanding of just war reasoning and his work remains a crucial starting point for a critical theory of war today. |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: Terrorism and the Ethics of War Stephen Nathanson, 2010-05-13 Most people strongly condemn terrorism; yet they often fail to say how terrorist acts differ from other acts of violence such as the killing of civilians in war. Stephen Nathanson argues that we cannot have morally credible views about terrorism if we focus on terrorism alone and neglect broader issues about the ethics of war. His book challenges influential views on the ethics of war, including the realist view that morality does not apply to war, and Michael Walzer's defence of attacks on civilians in 'supreme emergency' circumstances. It provides a clear definition of terrorism, an analysis of what makes terrorism morally wrong, and a rule-utilitarian defence of noncombatant immunity, as well as discussions of the Allied bombings of cities in World War II, collateral damage, and the clash between rights theories and utilitarianism. It will interest a wide range of readers in philosophy, political theory, international relations and law. |
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| just and unjust wars michael walzer: The Ethics of War Saba Bazargan, Samuel C. Rickless, 2017-01-23 Just War theory - as it was developed by the Catholic theologians of medieval Europe and the jurists of the Renaissance - is a framework for the moral and legal evaluation of armed conflicts. To this day, Just War theory informs the judgments of ethicists, government officials, international lawyers, religious scholars, news coverage, and perhaps most importantly, the public as a whole. The influence of Just War theory is as vast as it is subtle - we have been socialized into evaluating wars largely according to the principles of this medieval theory, which, according to the eminent philosopher David Rodin, is one of the few basic fixtures of medieval philosophy to remain substantially unchallenged in the modern world. Some of the most basic assumptions of Just War Theory have been dismantled in a barrage of criticism and analysis in the first dozen years of the 21st century. The Ethics of War continues and pushes past this trend. This anthology is an authoritative treatment of the ethics and law of war by both the eminent scholars who first challenged the orthodoxy of Just War theory, as well as by new thinkers. The twelve original essays span both foundational and topical issues in the ethics of war, including an investigation of: whether there is a greater-good obligation that parallels the canonical lesser-evil justification in war; the conditions under which citizens can wage war against their own government; whether there is a limit to the number of combatants on the unjust side who can be permissibly killed; whether the justice of the cause for which combatants fight affects the moral permissibility of fighting; whether duress ever justifies killing in war; the role that collective liability plays in the ethics of war; whether targeted killing is morally and legally permissible; the morality of legal prohibitions on the use of indiscriminate weapons; the justification for the legal distinction between directly and indirectly harming civilians; whether human rights of unjust combatants are more prohibitive than have been thought; the moral repair of combatants suffering from PTSD; and the moral categories and criteria needed to understand the proper justification for ending war. |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: The Jewish Political Tradition Michael Walzer, Menachem Lorberbaum, Noam J. Zohar, Ari Ackerman, 2006-05-15 This book launches a landmark four-volume collaborative work exploring the political thought of the Jewish people from biblical times to the present. The texts and commentaries in Volume I address the basic question of who ought to rule the community.--Descripción del editor. |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: The Ethics of War and Peace Terry Nardin, 1998-02-15 A superb introduction to the ethical aspects of war and peace, this collection of tightly integrated essays explores the reasons for waging war and for fighting with restraint as formulated in a diversity of ethical traditions, religious and secular. Beginning with the classic debate between political realism and natural law, this book seeks to expand the conversation by bringing in the voices of Judaism, Islam, Christian pacifism, and contemporary feminism. In so doing, it addresses a set of questions: How do the adherents to each viewpoint understand the ideas of war and peace? What attitudes toward war and peace are reflected in these understandings? What grounds for war, if any, are recognized within each perspective? What constraints apply to the conduct of war? Can these constraints be set aside in situations of extremity? Each contributor responds to this set of questions on behalf of the ethical perspective he or she is presenting. The concluding chapters compare and contrast the perspectives presented without seeking to adjudicate their differences. Because of its inclusive, objective, comparative, and dialogic approach, the book serves as a valuable resource for scholars, journalists, policymakers, and anyone else who wants to acquire a better understanding of the range of moral viewpoints that shape current discussion of war and peace. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Joseph Boyle, Michael G. Cartwright, Jean Bethke Elshtain, John Finnis, Sohail H. Hashmi, Theodore J. Koontz, David R. Mapel, Jeff McMahan, Richard B. Miller, Aviezer Ravitzky, Bassam Tibi, Sarah Tobias, and Michael Walzer. |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: The Great Work Thomas Berry, 2011-08-10 Thomas Berry is one of the most eminent cultural historians of our time. Here he presents the culmination of his ideas and urges us to move from being a disrupting force on the Earth to a benign presence. This transition is the Great Work -- the most necessary and most ennobling work we will ever undertake. Berry's message is not one of doom but of hope. He reminds society of its function, particularly the universities and other educational institutions whose role is to guide students into an appreciation rather than an exploitation of the world around them. Berry is the leading spokesperson for the Earth, and his profound ecological insight illuminates the path we need to take in the realms of ethics, politics, economics, and education if both we and the planet are to survive. |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: The Paradox of Liberation Michael Walzer, 2015-03-01 Many of the successful campaigns for national liberation in the years following World War II were initially based on democratic and secular ideals. Once established, however, the newly independent nations had to deal with entirely unexpected religious fierceness. Michael Walzer, one of America’s foremost political thinkers, examines this perplexing trend by studying India, Israel, and Algeria, three nations whose founding principles and institutions have been sharply attacked by three completely different groups of religious revivalists: Hindu militants, ultra-Orthodox Jews and messianic Zionists, and Islamic radicals. In his provocative, well-reasoned discussion, Walzer asks why these secular democratic movements have failed to sustain their hegemony: Why have they been unable to reproduce their political culture beyond one or two generations? In a postscript, he compares the difficulties of contemporary secularism to the successful establishment of secular politics in the early American republic—thereby making an argument for American exceptionalism but gravely noting that we may be less exceptional today. |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction Robert J. McMahon, 2021-02-25 Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Cold War dominated international life from the end of World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But how did the conflict begin? Why did it move from its initial origins in Postwar Europe to encompass virtually every corner of the globe? And why, after lasting so long, did the war end so suddenly and unexpectedly? Robert McMahon considers these questions and more, as well as looking at the legacy of the Cold War and its impact on international relations today. The Cold War: A Very Short Introduction is a truly international history, not just of the Soviet-American struggle at its heart, but also of the waves of decolonization, revolutionary nationalism, and state formation that swept the non-Western world in the wake of World War II. McMahon places the 'Hot Wars' that cost millions of lives in Korea, Vietnam, and elsewhere within the larger framework of global superpower competition. He shows how the United States and the Soviet Union both became empires over the course of the Cold War, and argues that perceived security needs and fears shaped U.S. and Soviet decisions from the beginning—far more, in fact, than did their economic and territorial ambitions. He unpacks how these needs and fears were conditioned by the divergent cultures, ideologies, and historical experiences of the two principal contestants and their allies. Covering the years 1945-1990, this second edition uses recent scholarship and newly available documents to offer a fuller analysis of the Vietnam War, the changing global politics of the 1970s, and the end of the Cold War. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable. |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: The Impact of 9/11 and the New Legal Landscape M. Morgan, 2009-08-31 The Impact of 9/11 and the New Legal Landscape is the third volume of the six-volume series The Day that Changed Everything? edited by Matthew J. Morgan. The series brings together from a broad spectrum of disciplines the leading thinkers of our time to reflect on one of the most significant events of our time. |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: The Morality of War - Second Edition Brian Orend, 2013-09-10 The first edition of The Morality of War was one of the most widely-read and successful books ever written on the topic. In this second edition, Brian Orend builds on the substantial strengths of the first, adding important new material on: cyber-warfare; drone attacks; the wrap-up of Iraq and Afghanistan; conflicts in Libya and Syria; and protracted struggles (like the Arab-Israeli conflict). Updated and streamlined throughout, the book offers new research tools and case studies, while keeping the winning blend of theory and history featured in the first edition. This book remains an engaging and comprehensive examination of the ethics, and practice, of war and peace in today’s world. |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: The Origins of the First World War James Joll, 1984 |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: On Toleration Michael Walzer, 2008-10-01 What kinds of political arrangements enable people from different national, racial, religious, or ethnic groups to live together in peace? In this book one of the most influential political theorists of our time discusses the politics of toleration. Michael Walzer examines five regimes of toleration—from multinational empires to immigrant societies—and describes the strengths and weaknesses of each regime, as well as the varying forms of toleration and exclusion each fosters. Walzer shows how power, class, and gender interact with religion, race, and ethnicity in the different regimes and discusses how toleration works—and how it should work—in multicultural societies like the United States. Walzer offers an eloquent defense of toleration, group differences, and pluralism, moving quickly from theory to practical issues, concrete examples, and hard questions. His concluding argument is focused on the contemporary United States and represents an effort to join and advance the debates about culture war, the politics of difference, and the disuniting of America. Although he takes a grim view of contemporary politics, he is optimistic about the possibility of coexistence: cultural pluralism and a common citizenship can go together, he suggests, in a strong and egalitarian democracy. |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: The Needs of Others Kelly McFall, 2022-07-01 The Needs of Others is set at the UN in 1994, where diplomats learn of violence in Rwanda. Representing UN ambassadors, human rights organizations, journalists, and public opinion leaders, students wrestle with difficult questions based on an unsteady trickle of information: Should the UN peacekeeping mission be withdrawn or strengthened? Is the fighting in Rwanda a civil war or something else? Does the UN have an obligation to intervene? |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: The Origins of the First World War James Joll, Gordon Martel, 2013-11-05 James Joll's study is not simply another narrative, retracing the powder trail that was finally ignited at Sarajevo. It is an ambitious and wide-ranging analysis of the historical forces at work in the Europe of 1914, and the very different ways in which historians have subsequently attempted to understand them. The importance of the theme, the breadth and sympathy of James Joll's scholarship, and the clarity of his exposition, have all contributed to the spectacular success of the book since its first appearance in 1984. Revised by Gordon Martel, this new 3rd edition accommodates recent research and an expanded further reading section. |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: Striking Power Jeremy Rabkin, John Yoo, 2017-09-12 Threats to international peace and security include the proliferation of weapons of mass destructions, rogue nations, and international terrorism. The United States must respond to these challenges to its national security and to world stability by embracing new military technologies such as drones, autonomous robots, and cyber weapons. These weapons can provide more precise, less destructive means to coerce opponents to stop WMD proliferation, clamp down on terrorism, or end humanitarian disasters. Efforts to constrain new military technologies are not only doomed, but dangerous. Most weapons in themselves are not good or evil; their morality turns on the motives and purposes for the war itself. These new weapons can send a strong message without cause death or severe personal injury, and as a result can make war less, rather than more, destructive. |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: The Character of Nations Angelo M. Codevilla, 2010-04-15 In this cross-cultural study, Angelo M. Codevilla illustrates that as people shape their governments, they shape themselves. Drawing broadly from the depths of history, from the Roman republic to de Tocqueville's America, as well as from personal and scholarly observations of the world in the twentieth century, The Character of Nations reveals remarkable truths about the effects of government on a society's economic arrangements, moral order, sense of family life, and ability to defend itself. Codevilla argues that in present-day America, government has had a profound negative effect on societal norms. It has taught people to seek prosperity through connections with political power; it has fostered the atrophy of civic responsibility; it has waged a Kulturkampf against family and religion; and it has dug a dangerous chasm between those who serve in the military and those who send it in harm's way. Informative and provocative, The Character of Nations shows how the political decisions we make have higher stakes than simply who wins elections. |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: Emergency Ethics Michael Walzer, 1988 |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: Supreme Command Eliot A. Cohen, 2012-04-17 “An excellent, vividly written” (The Washington Post) account of leadership in wartime that explores how four great democratic statesmen—Abraham Lincoln, Georges Clemenceau, Winston Churchill, and David Ben-Gurion—worked with the military leaders who served them during warfare. The relationship between military leaders and political leaders has always been a complicated one, especially in times of war. When the chips are down, who should run the show—the politicians or the generals? In Supreme Command, Eliot A. Cohen expertly argues that great statesmen do not turn their wars over to their generals, and then stay out of their way. Great statesmen make better generals of their generals. They question and drive their military men, and at key times they overrule their advice. The generals may think they know how to win, but the statesmen are the ones who see the big picture. Abraham Lincoln, Georges Clemenceau, Winston Churchill, and David Ben-Gurion led four very different kinds of democracy, under the most difficult circumstances imaginable. They came from four very different backgrounds—backwoods lawyer, dueling French doctor, rogue aristocrat, and impoverished Jewish socialist. Yet they faced similar challenges. Each exhibited mastery of detail and fascination with technology. All four were great learners, who studied war as if it were their own profession, and in many ways mastered it as well as did their generals. All found themselves locked in conflict with military men. All four triumphed. The powerful lessons of this “brilliant” (National Review) book will touch and inspire anyone who faces intense adversity and is the perfect gift for history buffs of all backgrounds. |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: The Just War Paul Ramsey, 2002 With a new foreword by noted theologian and ethicist Stanley Hauerwas, this classic text on war and the ethics of modern statecraft written at the height of the Vietnam era in 1968 speaks to a new generation of readers. Characterized by a sophisticated yet back-to-basics approach, The Just War begins with the assumption that force is a fact in political life which must either be reckoned with or succumbed to. It then grapples with modern challenges to traditional moral principles of just conduct in war, the morality of deterrence, and a just war theory of statecraft. |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: The Lesser Evil Michael Ignatieff, 2005-09-04 Must we fight terrorism with terror, match assassination with assassination, and torture with torture? Must we sacrifice civil liberty to protect public safety? In the age of terrorism, the temptations of ruthlessness can be overwhelming. But we are pulled in the other direction too by the anxiety that a violent response to violence makes us morally indistinguishable from our enemies. There is perhaps no greater political challenge today than trying to win the war against terror without losing our democratic souls. Michael Ignatieff confronts this challenge head-on, with the combination of hard-headed idealism, historical sensitivity, and political judgment that has made him one of the most influential voices in international affairs today. Ignatieff argues that we must not shrink from the use of violence--that far from undermining liberal democracy, force can be necessary for its survival. But its use must be measured, not a program of torture and revenge. And we must not fool ourselves that whatever we do in the name of freedom and democracy is good. We may need to kill to fight the greater evil of terrorism, but we must never pretend that doing so is anything better than a lesser evil. In making this case, Ignatieff traces the modern history of terrorism and counter-terrorism, from the nihilists of Czarist Russia and the militias of Weimar Germany to the IRA and the unprecedented menace of Al Qaeda, with its suicidal agents bent on mass destruction. He shows how the most potent response to terror has been force, decisive and direct, but--just as important--restrained. The public scrutiny and political ethics that motivate restraint also give democracy its strongest weapon: the moral power to endure when the furies of vengeance and hatred are spent. The book is based on the Gifford Lectures delivered at the University of Edinburgh in 2003. |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: Just War and Ordered Liberty Paul D. Miller, 2021-01-07 When is war just? What does justice require? If we lack a commonly-accepted understanding of justice – and thus of just war – what answers can we find in the intellectual history of just war? Miller argues that just war thinking should be understood as unfolding in three traditions: the Augustinian, the Westphalian, and the Liberal, each resting on distinct understandings of natural law, justice, and sovereignty. The central ideas of the Augustinian tradition (sovereignty as responsibility for the common good) can and should be recovered and worked into the Liberal tradition, for which human rights serves the same function. In this reconstructed Augustinian Liberal vision, the violent disruption of ordered liberty is the injury in response to which force may be used and war may be justly waged. Justice requires the vindication and restoration of ordered liberty in, through, and after warfare. |
| just and unjust wars michael walzer: Exodus And Revolution Michael Walzer, 1986-10-09 A noted political philosopher offers a moving meditation on the political meanings of the biblical story of Exodus -- from oppression to deliverance and the promised land. |
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military educators and the general reader, Walzer’s Just and Unjust Wars is the single most important modern work in the field (Johnson, 1975 & 1981: Ramsey, 1968: Walzer, 1977/2015, …
JUST AND UNJUST WARS - University of Pennsylvania
East. Wars undoubtedly have long political and moral pre-histories. But anticipation needs to be understood within a narrower frame. The Egyptians believed that the founding of Israel in 1948 …
The Sources and Status of Just War Principles - University of Oxford
ABSTRACT Michael Walzer presents the theory of the just war that he develops in Just and Unjust Wars as a set of principles governing the initiation and conduct of war that are entailed …
Just and Unjust War, Chapter 4 - Olivia Lau
Michael Walzer Just and Unjust Wars Part II: The Theory of Aggression; Chapter 4: Law and Order in International Society In chapter 4 Walzer presents the legalist paradigm of the theory …
Just and Unjust Wars, Chapter 5 - Olivia Lau
26 Sep 1999 · Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations. Chapter 5: Anticipations. Supersummary: Walzer presents the conditions under which a defensive initial …
Just and Unjust Wars, Chapters 4, 5, and 6 (excerpts) - Brandeis …
Just and Unjust Wars, Chapters 4, 5, and 6 (excerpts) Michael Walzer Ch. 4, Law and Order in International Society Aggression Aggression is the name we give to the crime of war. We …
Michael Walzer's Just War Theory: Some Issues of Responsibility …
In his widely influential statement of just war theory, Michael Walzer ex empts conscripted soldiers from all responsibility for taking part in war, whether just or unjust (the thesis of the "moral …
Reading Just and Unjust Wars Today - Springer
Walzer’s groundbreaking and magisterial Just and Unjust Wars. These essays by leading scholars elucidate Walzer’s original insight, that war must be fought justly and that just war …
Just and Unjust Wars, Chapter 6 - Olivia Lau
Walzer "Just and Unjust Wars" Chapter 6, "Interventions". MB Walzer is only considering MILITARY interventions, as per the title of his book. Other types of intervention are not …
The Triumph of Just War Theory (and the Dangers of Success)
The Triumph of Just War Theory (and the Dangers of Success) Author(s): MICHAEL WALZER Reviewed work(s): Source: Social Research, Vol. 69, No. 4, International Justice, War Crimes, …
From Right to Intervene to Duty to Protect: Michael Walzer on ...
In discussing these issues, Walzer deepens our understanding of humanitarian intervention by treating it both as an aspect of just war theory and as a his-toric practice able to reconcile the …
Michael Walzer on the Moral Legitimacy of States and the …
Michael Walzer’s Just and Unjust Wars is one of the most influential contemporary accounts of just war theory. 2 Walzer discusses jus ad bellum in the context of what he calls the “theory of …
BOOK REVIEW - JSTOR
JUST AND UNJUST WARS: A MORAL ARGUMENT WITH HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATIONS. By Michael Walzer.' New York: Basic Books, Inc. I977. PP. XX, 36I. $I5.00. Reviewed by Richard …
Michael Walzer on Resorting to Force - JSTOR
Michael Walzer on Resorting to Force' BRIAN OREND University of Waterloo American political theorist Michael Walzer is a prominent provocative thinker on the morality of warfare. His …
The Moral Standing of States: A Response to Four Critics - JSTOR
MICHAEL WALZER The Moral Standing of States: A Response to Four Critics T The argument of Just and Unjust Wars has been criticized in a num-ber of ways, most of them overtly political in …
Just and Unjust Wars: A Study of the Israeli Wars ... - ResearchGate
liberal theory on just and unjust wars that accentuates moral considerations is Michael Walzer. He used Clausewitz as a point of departure, aiming to construct an
Walzer's Theory of Morality in International Relations - JSTOR
In his new book Just and Unjust Wars, one of Michael Walzer's cen- tral concerns is to advance a theory of international aggression.1 His theory would guide us in determining precisely when …
The Incoherence of Walzer's Just War Theory - JSTOR
The Incoherence of Walzer's Just War Theory Michael Walzer closes his seminal book, Just and Unjust Wars,1 on a curious note. He admits that his theory of just war produces inconsistent …
Just & Unjust Targeted Killing & Drone Warfare - JSTOR
Just & Unjust Targeted Killing & Drone Warfare Michael Walzer Abstract: Targeted killing in the "war on terror" and in war generally is subject to familiar and severe moral constraints. The …
JUST AND - cuni.cz
wars declared in 1939 by Poland, France, and Britain to transform the Gennan state. Rather, these were paradigmatic just wars; their cause was resistance to anned aggression. And according to the just war paradigm, resistance to aggression …
Michael Walzer - London School of Economics
military educators and the general reader, Walzer’s Just and Unjust Wars is the single most important modern work in the field (Johnson, 1975 & 1981: Ramsey, 1968: Walzer, 1977/2015, Nardin et al, 1997). First published in the immediate aftermath of the Vietnam
JUST AND UNJUST WARS - University of Pennsylvania
East. Wars undoubtedly have long political and moral pre-histories. But anticipation needs to be understood within a narrower frame. The Egyptians believed that the founding of Israel in 1948 had been unjust, that the state had no rightful existence, and hence that it could be attacked at any time. It follows from this that
The Sources and Status of Just War Principles - University of Oxford
ABSTRACT Michael Walzer presents the theory of the just war that he develops in Just and Unjust Wars as a set of principles governing the initiation and conduct of war that are entailed by respect for the moral rights of individuals.
Just and Unjust War, Chapter 4 - Olivia Lau
Michael Walzer Just and Unjust Wars Part II: The Theory of Aggression; Chapter 4: Law and Order in International Society In chapter 4 Walzer presents the legalist paradigm of the theory of aggression. The legalist paradigm is exclusively concerned with upholding the conventions of law
Just and Unjust Wars, Chapter 5 - Olivia Lau
26 Sep 1999 · Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations. Chapter 5: Anticipations. Supersummary: Walzer presents the conditions under which a defensive initial attack against aggression, defined as imminent violence, can be morally justified.
Just and Unjust Wars, Chapters 4, 5, and 6 (excerpts) - Brandeis …
Just and Unjust Wars, Chapters 4, 5, and 6 (excerpts) Michael Walzer Ch. 4, Law and Order in International Society Aggression Aggression is the name we give to the crime of war. We know the crime because of our knowledge of the peace it interrupts--not the mere absence of fighting, but peace-with-rights, a condition of liberty and
Michael Walzer's Just War Theory: Some Issues of Responsibility …
In his widely influential statement of just war theory, Michael Walzer ex empts conscripted soldiers from all responsibility for taking part in war, whether just or unjust (the thesis of the "moral equality of soldiers").
Reading Just and Unjust Wars Today - Springer
Walzer’s groundbreaking and magisterial Just and Unjust Wars. These essays by leading scholars elucidate Walzer’s original insight, that war must be fought justly and that just war theory is not a niche discipline in either history, law, or philos-ophy. Walzer needs to be read and reread, critically, but never ever abandoned. This is a most ...
Just and Unjust Wars, Chapter 6 - Olivia Lau
Walzer "Just and Unjust Wars" Chapter 6, "Interventions". MB Walzer is only considering MILITARY interventions, as per the title of his book. Other types of intervention are not explored. Walzer considers when it would be acceptable for states …
The Triumph of Just War Theory (and the Dangers of Success)
The Triumph of Just War Theory (and the Dangers of Success) Author(s): MICHAEL WALZER Reviewed work(s): Source: Social Research, Vol. 69, No. 4, International Justice, War Crimes, and Terrorism: The U.S. Record (winter 2002), pp. 925-944 Published by: The New School Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40971584 . Accessed: 24/08/2012 14:41
From Right to Intervene to Duty to Protect: Michael Walzer on ...
In discussing these issues, Walzer deepens our understanding of humanitarian intervention by treating it both as an aspect of just war theory and as a his-toric practice able to reconcile the rights of states and persons in the changing circumstances of political choice.
Michael Walzer on the Moral Legitimacy of States and the …
Michael Walzer’s Just and Unjust Wars is one of the most influential contemporary accounts of just war theory. 2 Walzer discusses jus ad bellum in the context of what he calls the “theory of aggression” and he discusses jus in bello in the context of what he
BOOK REVIEW - JSTOR
JUST AND UNJUST WARS: A MORAL ARGUMENT WITH HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATIONS. By Michael Walzer.' New York: Basic Books, Inc. I977. PP. XX, 36I. $I5.00. Reviewed by Richard Wasserstrom 2 At least three fundamental moral questions arise with respect to war: under what circumstances, if any, is it justifiable to en-
Michael Walzer on Resorting to Force - JSTOR
Michael Walzer on Resorting to Force' BRIAN OREND University of Waterloo American political theorist Michael Walzer is a prominent provocative thinker on the morality of warfare. His landmark study, Just and Unjust Wars, remains a modem …
The Moral Standing of States: A Response to Four Critics - JSTOR
MICHAEL WALZER The Moral Standing of States: A Response to Four Critics T The argument of Just and Unjust Wars has been criticized in a num-ber of ways, most of them overtly political in character, as if in para-phrase of Clausewitz's famous maxim: writing about war is a continua-tion of writing about politics....' That is not an entirely false ...
Just and Unjust Wars: A Study of the Israeli Wars ... - ResearchGate
liberal theory on just and unjust wars that accentuates moral considerations is Michael Walzer. He used Clausewitz as a point of departure, aiming to construct an
Walzer's Theory of Morality in International Relations - JSTOR
In his new book Just and Unjust Wars, one of Michael Walzer's cen- tral concerns is to advance a theory of international aggression.1 His theory would guide us in determining precisely when one state prac- tices aggression against another and on what grounds aggression is im- moral.
The Incoherence of Walzer's Just War Theory - JSTOR
The Incoherence of Walzer's Just War Theory Michael Walzer closes his seminal book, Just and Unjust Wars,1 on a curious note. He admits that his theory of just war produces inconsistent moral prescriptions. In certain situations, to be explored below, Walzer says his theory both permits and prohibits the same course of action. In
Just & Unjust Targeted Killing & Drone Warfare - JSTOR
Just & Unjust Targeted Killing & Drone Warfare Michael Walzer Abstract: Targeted killing in the "war on terror" and in war generally is subject to familiar and severe moral constraints. The constraints hold across the board; they don't change when drones are the weapon of choice.
