Walzer And War: Reading Just And Unjust Wars Today

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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. 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