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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      24 January 2018
      25 January 2018
      ISBN:
      9781108235396
      9781108415897
      9781108402477
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108235396
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 268 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.39kg, 268 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations, Comparative Politics
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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 naïve 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. Morkevičius proposes here a radical recasting of the relationship between just war thinking and realism.

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    'This basically sound, lucidly written, and well-researched book advances the view, through historical reconstruction, that ad bellum and in bello just war theories have always, heretofore, been enmeshed in a pragmatic, realist paradigm, and is now in danger of being [hijacked] by pacifists and liberal internationalists (crusaders), with baneful international effects.'

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