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Just War Thinking - Morality and Pragmatism in the Struggle against Contemporary Threats (Paperback)
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Just War Thinking - Morality and Pragmatism in the Struggle against Contemporary Threats (Paperback)
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Just War Thinking: Morality and Pragmatism in the Struggle Against
Contemporary Threats reconsiders the intersection between morality
and pragmatism in foreign policy and modern warfare. Whereas recent
explications of 'Just War theory' neglect how twenty-first century
wars differ from the old wars that Just War doctrine was originally
designed for, this book argues that a political ethic of
responsibility should motivate the contemporary application of
military force by states in order to protect international security
and human life. Just War Thinking criticizes the quasi-pacifism of
most formal Just War scholarship, reconceptualizes a minimal,
realistic 'just war thinking' framework for exploring foreign and
military policy options, and evaluates the usefulness of this
approach by investigating contemporary cases such as the war on
terrorism in Afghanistan and Iraq, the call for assassination of
political leaders, and military humanitarian intervention. Finally,
the book considers new challenges to pragmatic yet moral policies:
the neglect of jus post bellum (justice at war's end); the
challenge of public opinion, democratic processes, and
supranational institutions to policies based on just war thinking;
and the erosive power of postmodernism to the normative structures
guiding Western decision-makers.
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