Michael Walzer on Just War Theory's "critical edge": more like a spoon...

Independent Review;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......global governance. The Triumph of Just War Theory sketches a history of the classical just...led to a resurgence of interest in just war theory, and people have been speaking its idiom...what he regards as the triumph of just war theory as follows: Perhaps naively, I am inclined...

Michael Walzer on Just War Theory's "Critical Edge": More Like a Spoon...

The Independent Review;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......global governance." "The Triumph of Just War Theory" sketches a history of the classical...to a resurgence of interest in "just war theory," and people have been speaking its idiom...what he regards as "the triumph" of just war theory as follows: "Perhaps navely, I am inclined...

'JUST WAR' DEFENDERS IGNORE THEIR OWN CRITERIA CAN WAR BE JUST?

Roanoke Times & World News;  November 10, 2002 ;     700+ words ......comment on the use of "Christian" just war theory not as a believer but as one who believes...problems I have seen with the use of just war theory by commentators like Raymond J. Keating...and have read many times since, just war theory consists of seven or eight criteria for...

JUST AND UNJUST WAR.(Editorial)(Column)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  March 13, 2001 ;     700+ words ......accordance to what theologians call just war theory. Whether or not its specific terminology is adopted, just war theory has always played a part in official...and Unjust Wars. Unfortunately, just war theory has never been taught to the average...

Is an Iraq attack really a just war?; The theory allows conflict under...

Sunday News Lancaster, PA;  February 23, 2003 ;     700+ words ......consideration the actual tenets of just war theory as developed by ethicists and theologians...what has come to be known as the Just War Theory. This code delineates for what cause...As generally accepted today, the Just War Theory requires: a war to be justly waged must...

Committing ground troops would make matters worse: NATO's attack is unjust...

Human Events;  April 16, 1999 ;     700+ words ......Augustine articulated what we call the Just War theory, describing the circumstances that could...meets none of the criteria of the Just War theory. While stopping Milosevic's horrendous...Clinton's War Misses the Mark First, the Just War theory requires that war be declared by the...

Just War? Moral Soldiers?

Independent Review;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......been told that their cause is just. Just war theory is used by leaders to galvanize soldiers...annals of history as great. When just war theory actually matters, but altogether fails...inevitable consequence of any war. Just War Theory and the Problem of Interpretation The...

Peace conference examines Iraq war

University Wire;  March 31, 2003 ;     700+ words ......presented papers that related to just war theory and argued that the current war...with respect to pacifism and just war theory and argued that the war with Iraq...clearly violated the concepts of just war theory. This war is preventive, designed...

Just War Theory and International Law Enforcement: A Reflective...

Hampton Roads International Security Quarterly;  October 15, 2004 ;     700+ words ......was unjust. Others worried that just war theory had been shown to be obsolete. Many people...force in the war against terrorism. Just war theory is not obsolete, and our struggle against...arisen in attempting to apply the just war theory template in inappropriate ways. We are...

Edmund Ryden. Just War and Pacifism: Chinese and Christian Perspectives in...

China Review International;  March 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ......the historical development of the Just War theory and discusses its conceptual relevance...least two ways of looking at the Just War theory: the pursuit of justice and the avoidance...presents a critical review of the Just War theory in Europe by examining the writings of...

Reasoned response

News Sun, The (Waukegan, IL);  March 31, 2003 ;     389 words ......them to develop what is called "just war theory." These seven components are broadly recognized as the basis for the just war theory: [] Just cause. War is permissible only...to apply these components of the just war theory to the current war between Iraq and the...

Arguing about War.(Book Review)

Ethics & International Affairs;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......theorist, Walzer has revitalized just war theory and the serious study of the ethics of...p. 15). At the heart of Walzer's just war theory has always been a deep commitment to...striving for rigorous consistency, make just war theory into something like pacifism and hence...

Book discloses new theories on bombing of Hiroshima

International Examiner;  September 5, 1995 ;     700+ words ......half a million American lives, and two, the cold war theory, which views the bomb as a diplomatic weapon used...discovered at least four stories: the end the war theory, the cold war theory, one story that emphasized race as a factor, and...

TIMELY LECTURE COVERS "JUST WAR THEORY'.(Neighbors Oswego)

The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  September 26, 2002 ;     49 words ......human ideals begins at 2:15 p.m. Oct. 5 in the lower lobby of Sheldon Hall at the State University College at Oswego. Just War Theory in the 21st Century will be presented by Steven P. Lee of Hobart and William Smith Colleges. The lecture is free and open...

In their prayers

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  October 13, 2001 ;     700+ words ......thinking . . . praying. Adapting just war theory to new forms of violence . . . Waiting...necessary to bring justice. The `just war' theory Christianity has a pacifist tradition...permissible as a last resort. But the just war theory that has evolved over more than 1,500...