The Justice of Preventive War

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Published 2004 by Storming Media .
Written in English

Subjects:

• POL040000

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The Physical Object
Format	Spiral-bound
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL11846520M
ISBN 10	1423520459
ISBN 10	9781423520450

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  The Korean War of is a prime example of a just war when fighting for less-than-total victory was a more prudential alternative than either capitulation or an all-out war. When, however, the United States does have to fight, it should be with the strong presumption of striving for total victory in order to achieve a rightly ordered peace. The Special (Moral) Circumstances of Preventive War. Stephen E. Lammers, Ph.D. Lafayette College. Easton, Pa. Preemptive and preventive wars recently have come under a good deal of scrutiny. One of the central questions concerns when, if ever, it is justifiable to wage them. Few scholars have paid any attention to the question of whether either type of war might have special moral.

Justice at War irrevocably alters the reader's perception of one of the most disturbing events in U.S. history—the internment during World War II of American citizens of Japanese descent. Peter Irons' exhaustive research has uncovered a government campaign of suppression, alteration, and destruction of crucial evidence that could have persuaded the Supreme Court to strike down the internment. ‘Preventive War’ and International Law After Iraq Page 4 of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the peace; Size: KB. This two-volume Encyclopedia of Global Justice, published by Springer, along with Springer's book series, Studies in Global Justice, is a major publication venture toward a comprehensive coverage of this timely Encyclopedia is an international, interdisciplinary, and collaborative project, spanning all the relevant areas of scholarship related to issues of global justice, and edited Brand: Springer Netherlands.

In this book, eleven leading theorists debate the normative challenges of preventive war through the lens of important public and political issues of war and peace in the twenty-first century. Their discussion covers complex and topical subjects including terrorism, the 'Bush doctrine' and the invasion of Iraq, Iran's nuclear capabilities Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press. Just War Theory has a long history in the western intellectual tradition. St. Augustine commented on the morality of war from a Christian perspective, as did several Arabic commentators from the 9th to the 12th centuries. But St. Thomas Aquinas provided the most celebrated and still discussed the main outlines of just war theory.. Just War Theory traditionally has two sets of criteria.   Notions of preventive war did not end with the fall of the Axis. After the war, when the Soviet Union finally developed nuclear weapons, there was a short-lived debate in the United States over whether to wage preventive war against Moscow while the nuclear balance was still in the West's : $