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In Defence of War (Hardcover)
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In Defence of War (Hardcover)
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Pacifism is popular. Many hold that war is unnecessary, since
peaceful means of resolving conflict are always available, if only
we had the will to look for them. Or they believe that war is
wicked, essentially involving hatred of the enemy and carelessness
of human life. Or they posit the absolute right of innocent
individuals not to be deliberately killed, making it impossible to
justify war in practice.
Peace, however, is not simple. Peace for some can leave others at
peace to perpetrate mass atrocity. What was peace for the West in
1994 was not peace for the Tutsis of Rwanda. Therefore, against the
virus of wishful thinking, anti-military caricature, and the
domination of moral deliberation by rights-talk In Defence of War
asserts that belligerency can be morally justified, even though
tragic and morally flawed.
Recovering the Christian tradition of reflection running from
Augustine to Grotius, this book affirms aggressive war in
punishment of grave injustice. Morally realistic in adhering to
universal moral principles, it recognises that morality can trump
legality, justifying military intervention even in transgression of
positive international law-as in the case of Kosovo. Less cynical
and more empirically realistic about human nature than Hobbes, it
holds that nations desire to be morally virtuous and right, and not
only to be safe and fat. And aspiring to practical realism, it
argues that love and the doctrine of double effect can survive
combat; and that the constraints of proportionality, while real,
are nevertheless sufficiently permissive to encompass Britain's
belligerency in 1914-18. Finally, in a painstaking analysis of the
Iraq invasion of 2003, In Defence of War culminates in an account
of how the various criteria of just war should be thought together.
It also concludes that, all things considered, the invasion was
justified.
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