[Rezension von: Just war]
President Barack Obama's 2009 Nobel Peace Prize address reminded us that nation-state leaders still rely on the just war tradition as a way to guide the use of state-sponsored force in the world. The editors of this collection want to shed new light on this venerable moral tradition, which shap...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2015
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2015, Volume: 57, Issue: 2, Pages: 370-371 |
| Review of: | Just war (Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, 2013) (Cole, Darrell)
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| IxTheo Classification: | NCC Social ethics |
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| Summary: | President Barack Obama's 2009 Nobel Peace Prize address reminded us that nation-state leaders still rely on the just war tradition as a way to guide the use of state-sponsored force in the world. The editors of this collection want to shed new light on this venerable moral tradition, which shapes international relations, legal codes, and political speeches. One of the most intriguing goals of the volume is how it challenges what the post-Westphalian system did to the classical just war criteria of right authority, limiting it to the sovereign head of a recognized nation state. The just war tradition, conceived before the advent of the nation-state system, evinces a broader range of what can count as right authority for using force. Thus, we find James Turner Johnson arguing that the whole point of emphasizing right authority is to recognize the purpose of that authority—namely, the responsibility for the common good. In this sense, there can be no sovereign ruler who is not a good ruler because the exercise of sovereignty means the exercise of political power for the common good. There can be recognized leaders of nation-states who do not exercise political power for the common good (Hitler is an obvious example), and there can be people who are not recognized as leaders in the nation-state system who nevertheless exercise political power for the common good (leaders of resistance movements against oppressive regimes, for example—a topic helpfully explored in Michael Green's attempt to look at guerilla warfare as a justifiable use of force). The key to right authority is whether or not those in authority serve the interests of a just peace ... |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csv025 |