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Just War and International Order : the Uncivil Condition in World Politics.
Argues the just war tradition, rather than being a restraint on war, has expanded its scope, and criticises this trend.
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; A word about method; The shape of the book; 1 Disordered world?; Apocalypse now?; Geopolitical frameworks; Clash of civilizations?; The return of 'hard power'; A clash of mentalities?; An agonistic world?; Two trajectories in modern European thought; 2 War music: social imaginaries of war in the modern age; The modern social imaginary and war; The heroic response; The realpolitik response; The 'compassionate' response; Pacifism as a response; Just war responses; The dominant synthesis; The synthesis in the twentieth century.
- Regime type and the use of forceConclusion; 3 Just war: ambiguous tradition; The just war tradition: dilemmas of origin and interpretation; The just war tradition and the jus in bello; The early modern jus in bello; From jus gentium to the laws of war; The modern just war; The juridical just war; The Christian just war; The cosmopolitan just war; The parting of the ways; 4 Force for good?; 'Humanitarian' intervention: framing a debate; Debating humanitarian intervention; From intervention to preventive war; Arguments for a doctrine of justifiable preventive war; Assessing the arguments.
- Pragmatic responsesEthical responses; Epistemological responses; 'Enlightened therapeutic' agents, intervention and preventive war; Conclusions; 5 Supreme emergency; The nightmare; The noble dream; Walzer's supreme emergency; Criticisms of Walzer, but not of 'supreme emergency'?; Supreme emergency and teleocratic politics; Against supreme emergency; Epilogue: a choice not a destiny; A realistic world?; The necessity of teleocracy?; What's wrong with teleocracy?; A choice or a destiny?; Select bibliography; Index.