1st Edition

New Interventionist Just War Theory A Critique

By Jordy Rocheleau Copyright 2022
254 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

This book offers a systematic critique of recent interventionist just war theories, which have made the recourse to force easier to justify. The work argues that these theories, including neo-traditionalist prerogatives to national leaders and a cosmopolitan human rights paradigm, offer criteria for war that are insufficient in principle and dangerous in practice. Drawing on a plurality of... Read more

Introduction

Part I: Principled Just Recourse over Realism and Neo-Traditionalism

1. Just War Theory and the Ethical Restraint of War

2. Presumptions, Principles, and Prerogatives in War: Against Hawkish Neo-Traditionalism

3. Why Punishment is Not a Just Cause for War

Part II: The Need for a Restrictively High, Legalist Just Cause Threshold

4. Against the New Cosmopolitan Interventionism: Why Human Rights Protection is Not Sufficient Cause for War

5. What is it Good For? Consequences and the Limits of War

6. Why Two Wrongs Cannot Make a Right Use of Force: A Critique of Compound Just Causes

Part III: Procedures for the Reasonable Limitation of War

7. Jus Ad (Continuandum) Bellum: Reevaluating the Justice of Interventions over Time

8. The Nature and Necessity of Legitimate Authorization

9. Conclusion: Applying Non-Interventionist Jus Ad Bellum

Biography

Jordy Rocheleau is Professor of Philosophy at Austin Peay State University, USA. He is co-author of Rights and Wrongs in the College Classroom (2007).