Michael Neu
Biographic Data
| ID | 1667553 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Neu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Neu |
| SIGNATURE | NEU M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Brighton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Responsibility to Protect in a world of already existing intervention
In the face of humanitarian crises, members of the international community are often presented with a choice: engage in forms of action, including military intervention, or stand by and watch. This framing ignores practices of intervention that are already taking place and contributing to the emergence and perpetuation of humanitarian crises. Despite calling for more attention to be paid to already existing intervention, literature on the Respons…
Just Liberal Violence: Sweatshops, Torture, War
This book critically examines "just liberal violence": forms of direct and structural violence that others may be "justly" subjected to. Michael Neu focusses on liberal defences of torture, war and sweatshop labour, respectively, and argues that each of these defences fails and that all of them fail for similar reasons. Liberal defences of violence share several blind spots, and it is the task of this book to reveal them. Neu offers a unifying pe…
The supreme emergency of war: A critique of Walzer
This is a critique of the way in which Michael Walzer applies the concept of supreme emergencies in war. It aims to show that Walzer is mistaken in reserving this concept, as well as the associated notion of dirty hands, for situations in which political communities, in a desperate struggle for survival, cannot help but kill innocents intentionally, rather than merely with foresight. If moral agents have moral reasons to proceed in a way which wi…
The tragedy of justified war
This article examines and critiques the binary structure of contemporary just war thinking. Theorists claim that the waging of war, and the committing of military acts within war, is either just or unjust. This binary distinction should be tempered by the awareness that justified wars are tragic: tragic in the broad sense of inescapably involving moral wronging, but not necessarily tragic in the narrow sense of not having been preventable by the …
Why There is No Such Thing as Just War Pacifism and Why Just War Theorists and Pacifists Can Talk Nonetheless
This article argues that there is no such thing as just war pacifism, and that war theory and pacifism cannot be substantially reconciled in theory and practice. It suggests that that it is the sole task of the moral philosopher of war to tell us whether or not war can be morally justified, and if so when. The author reviews accounts of the nature of the moral conflict under consideration here, demonstrated that both just war theorists and pacifi…
The Responsibility to Protect in a world of already existing intervention
In the face of humanitarian crises, members of the international community are often presented with a choice: engage in forms of action, including military intervention, or stand by and watch. This framing ignores practices of intervention that are already taking place and contributing to the emergence and perpetuation of humanitarian crises. Despite calling for more attention to be paid to already existing intervention, literature on the Respons…
The tragedy of justified war
This article examines and critiques the binary structure of contemporary just war thinking. Theorists claim that the waging of war, and the committing of military acts within war, is either just or unjust. This binary distinction should be tempered by the awareness that justified wars are tragic: tragic in the broad sense of inescapably involving moral wronging, but not necessarily tragic in the narrow sense of not having been preventable by the …
The supreme emergency of war: A critique of Walzer
This is a critique of the way in which Michael Walzer applies the concept of supreme emergencies in war. It aims to show that Walzer is mistaken in reserving this concept, as well as the associated notion of dirty hands, for situations in which political communities, in a desperate struggle for survival, cannot help but kill innocents intentionally, rather than merely with foresight. If moral agents have moral reasons to proceed in a way which wi…
Why There is No Such Thing as Just War Pacifism and Why Just War Theorists and Pacifists Can Talk Nonetheless
This article argues that there is no such thing as just war pacifism, and that war theory and pacifism cannot be substantially reconciled in theory and practice. It suggests that that it is the sole task of the moral philosopher of war to tell us whether or not war can be morally justified, and if so when. The author reviews accounts of the nature of the moral conflict under consideration here, demonstrated that both just war theorists and pacifi…
The tragedy of justified war
This article examines and critiques the binary structure of contemporary just war thinking. Theorists claim that the waging of war, and the committing of military acts within war, is either just or unjust. This binary distinction should be tempered by the awareness that justified wars are tragic: tragic in the broad sense of inescapably involving moral wronging, but not necessarily tragic in the narrow sense of not having been preventable by the …
The supreme emergency of war: A critique of Walzer
This is a critique of the way in which Michael Walzer applies the concept of supreme emergencies in war. It aims to show that Walzer is mistaken in reserving this concept, as well as the associated notion of dirty hands, for situations in which political communities, in a desperate struggle for survival, cannot help but kill innocents intentionally, rather than merely with foresight. If moral agents have moral reasons to proceed in a way which wi…
Just Liberal Violence: Sweatshops, Torture, War
This book critically examines "just liberal violence": forms of direct and structural violence that others may be "justly" subjected to. Michael Neu focusses on liberal defences of torture, war and sweatshop labour, respectively, and argues that each of these defences fails and that all of them fail for similar reasons. Liberal defences of violence share several blind spots, and it is the task of this book to reveal them. Neu offers a unifying pe…
The Responsibility to Protect in a world of already existing intervention
In the face of humanitarian crises, members of the international community are often presented with a choice: engage in forms of action, including military intervention, or stand by and watch. This framing ignores practices of intervention that are already taking place and contributing to the emergence and perpetuation of humanitarian crises. Despite calling for more attention to be paid to already existing intervention, literature on the Respons…
Political science (5 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Just war theory (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Spanish Civil War (3 works) · Torture, Ethics, and Law (3 works) · War, Ethics, and Justification (3 works)