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Realist Ethics - Just War Traditions as Power Politics (Paperback)
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Realist Ethics - Just War Traditions as Power Politics (Paperback)
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Just war thinking and realism are commonly presumed to be in
opposition. If realists are seen as war-mongering pragmatists, just
war thinkers are seen as naive at best and pacifistic at worst.
Just war thought is imagined as speaking truth to power - forcing
realist decision-makers to abide by moral limits governing the ends
and means of the use of force. Realist Ethics argues that this
oversimplification is not only wrong, but dangerous. Casting just
war thought to be the alternative to realism makes just war
thinking out to be what it is not - and cannot be: a mechanism for
avoiding war. A careful examination of the evolution of just war
thinking in the Christian, Islamic, and Hindu traditions shows that
it is no stranger to pragmatic politics. From its origins, just war
thought has not aimed to curtail violence, but rather to shape the
morally imaginable uses of force, deeming some of them necessary
and even obligatory. Morkevicius proposes here a radical recasting
of the relationship between just war thinking and realism.
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