Eric Heinze
Biographic Data
| ID | 4164777 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Heinze |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Heinze |
| SIGNATURE | HEINZE E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0471-4954 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The ethics and politics of military withdrawal
Military withdrawals are a comparatively understudied topic within the broader subject of war and conflict. While both historians and Just War theorists have recently wrestled with this challenging topic, they have done so in isolation and failed to appreciate the complex interplay of both ‘ethical’ and ‘political’ considerations. This article examines the ethics and politics of military withdrawals by drawing from Just War theory and examining f…
Análise empírica sobre a sistemática ritualística erudita e popular do Tribunal do Júri sob o pálio dos direitos humanos garantidos constitucionalmente
This article constitutes the second material made from the free and empirical ethnographic analysis of several sessions of the jury, specifically regarding the idiosyncratic performance of its main characters: Judge, prosecutor, defender and Council of Judgment. It does not lend itself to the definitiveness of the selected theme, neither does it build undisputed thesis. It is based on eyewitness observation concept of jurisdictional plenary and i…
International Law, Self-Defense, and the Israel-Hamas Conflict
This article examines the international law of self-defense as it applies to the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict to determine whether the October 2023 attacks by Hamas against Israel can be interpreted under Article 51 of the UN Charter as an “armed attack” that gives Israel the right to use military force in self-defense against non-state actors. It situates the conflict within ongoing legal and political debates, shows how this conflict fits into…
Critical theory and memory politics: Leftist autocritique after the Ukraine war
In recent years, Western governments have invoked the values of universal human rights to justify large-scale military operations. Critical theorists have often responded that these campaigns serve not to promote peace, stability, or prosperity, but to entrench Western economic and political power, often in ways that have been devastating for local populations. However, Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine casts doubt on whether assumptions about We…
The Most Human Right: Why Free Speech Is Everything
A bold, groundbreaking argument by a world-renowned expert that unless we treat free speech as the fundamental human right, there can be no others. What are human rights? Are they laid out definitively in the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights or the US Bill of Rights? Are they items on a checklist—dignity, justice, progress, standard of living, health care, housing? In The Most Human Right, Eric Heinze explains why global human rights sy…
Global libertarianism: How much public morality does international human rights law allow
International human rights specialists and libertarian philosophers have rarely pursued meaningful exchanges, but this paper probes some of their common ground. In recent years, leading international monitoring bodies have developed a principle described here as the ‘Libertarian Principle of Human Rights’ (LPHR). It runs as follows: Governments cannot legitimately recite public morals as a sufficient justification to limit individual human rights…
Limited Force and the Return of Reprisals in the Law of Armed Conflict
Armed reprisals are the limited use of military force in response to unlawful actions perpetrated against states. Historically, reprisals provided a military remedy for states that had been wronged (often violently) by another state without having to resort to all-out war in order to counter or deter such wrongful actions. While reprisals are broadly believed to have been outlawed by the UN Charter, states continue to routinely undertake such sel…
Routledge Handbook of Ethics and International Relations
Routledge Handbook of Ethics and International Relations
No-platforming and Safe Spaces: Should Universities Censor more (or less) Speech than the Law Requires
How should higher education respond to legally mandated limits on hateful, discriminatory, or provocative speech?Should public universities fortify government rules in the name of equal dignity for vulnerable groups, by imposing even further restrictions of their own?Or should they oppose such restrictions in the name of free speech?Or should they do neither, seeking neither amplification nor repeal, instead simply joining in whatever the governm…
The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention
There are few subjects that have received as much attention as humanitarian intervention in the study of international relations since the end of the Cold War. While military campaigns aimed at halting mass atrocities abroad have their share of supporters and critics in both the policy and scholarly communities, Rajan Menon’s book, The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention, is a particularly critical analysis of this controversial subject. Menon’s…
Hate Speech and Democratic Citizenship
Just and Unjust Interventions in World Politics: Public and Private, by Catherine Lu
Catherine Lu Just and Unjust Interventions in World Politics: Public and Private Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011. 239 pp., $31.00 (paper) ISBN: 978-0-230-28565-1The subject of military intervention has always been prominent feature of normative debates in international relations (IR), and the past decade has been no exception. In the past 10 years there have been so many publications and books about the subject of intervention and the corol…
Justice, Sustainability, and Security
Foreword Joel H. Rosenthal Justice, Sustainability, and Security: An Introduction Eric A. Heinze, University of Oklahoma PART I: JUSTICE 1. The Hardest Cases of Global Injustice: the Responsibility to Inquire Brooke Ackerly 2. Business and Human Rights: An Insider's Journey with BP and Beyond Christine Bader PART II: SUSTAINABILITY 3. Reflections on 'Actually Existing Sustainability' Timothy W. Luke 4. Beyond Durban: A New Agenda for Climate Ethi…
Hate speech and the normative foundations of regulation
Racist incidents on American university campuses in the 1980s triggered a storm of publications by scholars who coined the phrase ‘hate speech’ for the legal lexicon. Some of the offences had already been subject to legal or institutional penalties for harassment or vandalism. Several universities nevertheless adopted broad codes of conduct to penalise hateful expression. For two decades, however, the US Supreme Court had been marching in the opp…
The Concept of Injustice
The Concept of Injustice challenges traditional Western justice theory. Thinkers from Plato and Aristotle through to Kant, Hegel, Marx and Rawls have subordinated the idea of injustice to the idea of justice. Misled by the word’s etymology, political theorists have assumed injustice to be the sheer, logical opposite of justice. Heinze summons ancient and early modern texts, philosophical and literary, with special attention to Shakespeare, to arg…
The concept of injustice
The evolution of international law in light of the ‘global War on Terror’
This article explores how various aspects of the ‘global War on Terror’ may be affecting the future development of international law on the use of force. I examine these effects within three areas of international law – the law of anticipatory self-defence, the law of self-defence against non-state actors, and the applicability of international humanitarian law to non-state armed groups. Only in the latter two areas do I find evidence that intern…
The meta-ethics of law: Book One of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
Traditional scholarship has approached Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics mostly as a system of positive ethics. Less attention has been paid to the work’s meta-ethics – the claims Aristotle makes about what any system of positive ethics must say or do in order to count as an ethical theory. In this article, Book One of the Nicomachean Ethics is read not simply as an introduction to Aristotle’s system of positive ethics, but as a statement of distinc…
Public awareness of human rights: Distortions in the mass media
The mass media decisively shape global perceptions about human rights, yet fail to reflect the realities of global violations. Situations of egregious abuse are often overshadowed by those which receive attention for reasons extraneous to any specific concern for human rights. Distortions in established media sources arise not necessarily from deliberate misrepresentation, but from the inevitable disparities that arise when human rights abuses ar…
He'd turn the world itself into a prison’: Discourses of Empire and Nation in Racine's Alexander the Great
The review and analysis of Jean Racine's 'Alexander the Great' and the discourses of Empire and Nation as seen in it are discussed. The empire may serve its function of overcoming local rivalries through an imposed peace; however, it may just as easily become a force that fuels a rivalry which has otherwise lain dormant
The State of Sovereignty: Territories, Laws, Populations – Edited by Douglas Howland and Luise White Humanitarian Intervention: Confronting the Contradictions – Edited by Michael Newman
Cumulative jurisprudence and human rights: The example of sexual minorities and hate speech
Leading non-discrimination norms in post-1945 human rights instruments have generally enumerated specified categories for protection, such as race, ethnicity, sex, and religion. They have often omitted express reference to sexual minorities. However, through ‘such as’ or ‘other status’ clauses, or otherwise open-ended phrasing or interpretation, such instruments have generated a ‘cumulative jurisprudence’, whereby sexual minorities subsequently b…
Nonstate Actors in the International Legal Order: The Israeli-Hezbollah Conflict and the Law of Self-Defense
The concern of whether nonstate actors can undertake an “armed attack” that would trigger a state's right to self-defense has acquired new prominence in the post–September 11 world. This article addresses that concern by examining the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict of July 2006. It argues that since the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, states have incurred an increased responsibility for the acts of nonstate actors that operate from their territor…
Imperialism and Nationalism in Early Modernity: The ‘Cosmopolitan’ and The ‘Provincial’ in Shakespeare's Cymbeline
The discourses of conquering empire and vassal nation are varied, often internally contradictory. The empire may represent openness and diversity, or militarist brutality. The underling nation may represent autonomy and self-determination, or narrow provincialism. Those discourses spawn ideologies of liberation (‘the empire liberates the nation’, ‘the nation must be liberated from the empire’) and counter-ideologies of oppression (‘the empire opp…
The Rhetoric of Genocide in U.S. Foreign Policy: Rwanda and Darfur Compared
Journal Article The Rhetoric of Genocide in U.S. Foreign Policy: Rwanda and Darfur Compared Get access Eric A. Heinze Eric A. Heinze ERIC A. HEINZE is an assistant professor of political science and international studies at the University of Oklahoma. His scholarly articles have most recently appeared in the Journal of Human Rights, Parameters, the Journal of Military Ethics, Polity, and the International Journal of Human Rights. His book, Waging…
The Moral Limits of Humanitarian Intervention: Reconciling Human Respect and Utility
It is clear that military force should be used cautiously, but at the same time, some human rights violations cannot be effectively addressed by anything short of forcible coercion. This essay utilizes competing views on international morality-those of Michael Walzer and Charles Beitz-to argue for a human rights-based understanding of humanitarian intervention. I maintain that the prevailing views on international morality render the conditions u…
Hate speech and the normative foundations of regulation
Racist incidents on American university campuses in the 1980s triggered a storm of publications by scholars who coined the phrase ‘hate speech’ for the legal lexicon. Some of the offences had already been subject to legal or institutional penalties for harassment or vandalism. Several universities nevertheless adopted broad codes of conduct to penalise hateful expression. For two decades, however, the US Supreme Court had been marching in the opp…
Viewpoint Absolutism and Hate Speech
Limited Force and the Return of Reprisals in the Law of Armed Conflict
Armed reprisals are the limited use of military force in response to unlawful actions perpetrated against states. Historically, reprisals provided a military remedy for states that had been wronged (often violently) by another state without having to resort to all-out war in order to counter or deter such wrongful actions. While reprisals are broadly believed to have been outlawed by the UN Charter, states continue to routinely undertake such sel…
No-platforming and Safe Spaces: Should Universities Censor more (or less) Speech than the Law Requires
How should higher education respond to legally mandated limits on hateful, discriminatory, or provocative speech?Should public universities fortify government rules in the name of equal dignity for vulnerable groups, by imposing even further restrictions of their own?Or should they oppose such restrictions in the name of free speech?Or should they do neither, seeking neither amplification nor repeal, instead simply joining in whatever the governm…
Public awareness of human rights: Distortions in the mass media
The mass media decisively shape global perceptions about human rights, yet fail to reflect the realities of global violations. Situations of egregious abuse are often overshadowed by those which receive attention for reasons extraneous to any specific concern for human rights. Distortions in established media sources arise not necessarily from deliberate misrepresentation, but from the inevitable disparities that arise when human rights abuses ar…
Nonstate Actors in the International Legal Order: The Israeli-Hezbollah Conflict and the Law of Self-Defense
The concern of whether nonstate actors can undertake an “armed attack” that would trigger a state's right to self-defense has acquired new prominence in the post–September 11 world. This article addresses that concern by examining the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict of July 2006. It argues that since the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, states have incurred an increased responsibility for the acts of nonstate actors that operate from their territor…
The New Utopianism: Liberalism, American Foreign Policy, and the War in Iraq
This article explores the extent to which the decision to invade Iraq in 2003 coheres with the normative precepts of liberalism as an international political theory. Beginning with a Lockean liberal theory of the state, this article first examines the evolution of international liberalism in order to identify the fundamental normative postulates of liberal theory as it pertains to international relations, especially regarding the use of military …
Heir, Celebrity, Martyr, Monster: Legal and Political Legitimacy in Shakespeare and Beyond
The Chechen Exception: Rethinking Russia's Human Rights Policy
Orthodox interpretations of human rights policies and practices in post-Soviet Russia are often construed by external critics through a historicist lens of tsarist and Soviet-era authoritarianism. Contemporary Russia's adherence to emerging international human rights norms is commonly judged in sole reference to its human rights disaster in Chechnya. In this article, we contest the notion that human rights abuses in Chechnya fully illustrate Russ…
The meta-ethics of law: Book One of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
Traditional scholarship has approached Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics mostly as a system of positive ethics. Less attention has been paid to the work’s meta-ethics – the claims Aristotle makes about what any system of positive ethics must say or do in order to count as an ethical theory. In this article, Book One of the Nicomachean Ethics is read not simply as an introduction to Aristotle’s system of positive ethics, but as a statement of distinc…
He'd turn the world itself into a prison’: Discourses of Empire and Nation in Racine's Alexander the Great
The review and analysis of Jean Racine's 'Alexander the Great' and the discourses of Empire and Nation as seen in it are discussed. The empire may serve its function of overcoming local rivalries through an imposed peace; however, it may just as easily become a force that fuels a rivalry which has otherwise lain dormant
The State of Sovereignty: Territories, Laws, Populations – Edited by Douglas Howland and Luise White Humanitarian Intervention: Confronting the Contradictions – Edited by Michael Newman
Victory in War: Foundations of Modern Military Policy
Victory in War: Foundations of Modern Military Policy. By William C. Martel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 436p. $35.00. With the United States currently fighting protracted wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq, the question of what it means to achieve victory in war has never been more important for U.S. foreign policy. While policymakers, scholars, and military strategists have studied for millennia how to achieve victory in armed c…
Maximizing Human Security: A Utilitarian Argument for Humanitarian Intervention
Virtually all serious works that deal with the subject of humanitarian intervention argue, and sometimes assume, that it should only take place under the most “extreme” or “severe” of human rights
Humanitarian intervention: Morality and international law on intolerable violations of human rights
Using the concept of ‘gross violations of human rights’ as a guiding principle for humanitarian intervention, this essay argues that a hierarchy of human rights is supported not only by moral reasoning, but by an overwhelming body of international law and jurisprudence. I first put forth a normative argument that suggests the violation of certain rights – and the extent to which these violations occur – are morally intolerable and grounds for the…
Beyond Parapraxes: Right and Wrong Approaches to the Universality of Human Rights Law
Human rights law draws its legitimacy from the distinctiveness of the cultures that comprise the world community. Yet its intrinsic respect for cross-cultural difference does not condemn it to an intractable relativism. Even if significant cross-cultural disagreement about the meaning of specific rights is likely to persist, such disagreement takes place within a legal and normative framework that already presupposes a fundamental universality of…
Sexual Orientation: A Human Right
This book is the first to examine sexual orientation from the viewpoint of international human rights law. It does not simply `create' a platform of rights and argue for their `introduction' in human rights law. Rather, it examines how extant international norms should be construed to include rights against discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, including rights of privacy, equality, speech, expression, and association. It raises ques…
The Chechen Exception: Rethinking Russia's Human Rights Policy
Orthodox interpretations of human rights policies and practices in post-Soviet Russia are often construed by external critics through a historicist lens of tsarist and Soviet-era authoritarianism. Contemporary Russia's adherence to emerging international human rights norms is commonly judged in sole reference to its human rights disaster in Chechnya. In this article, we contest the notion that human rights abuses in Chechnya fully illustrate Russ…
Reconciling approaches to enquiry in the humanitarian intervention debate
Alexander Moseley and Richard Norman (eds), Human Rights and Military Intervention (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2002). J.L. Holzgrefe and Robert O. Keohane (eds), Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical, Legal
Humanitarian intervention: Morality and international law on intolerable violations of human rights
Using the concept of ‘gross violations of human rights’ as a guiding principle for humanitarian intervention, this essay argues that a hierarchy of human rights is supported not only by moral reasoning, but by an overwhelming body of international law and jurisprudence. I first put forth a normative argument that suggests the violation of certain rights – and the extent to which these violations occur – are morally intolerable and grounds for the…
The Moral Limits of Humanitarian Intervention: Reconciling Human Respect and Utility
It is clear that military force should be used cautiously, but at the same time, some human rights violations cannot be effectively addressed by anything short of forcible coercion. This essay utilizes competing views on international morality-those of Michael Walzer and Charles Beitz-to argue for a human rights-based understanding of humanitarian intervention. I maintain that the prevailing views on international morality render the conditions u…
Promoting change in US human rights policy and practice: The roles of scholarship and advocacy
Peter R. Baehr and Monique Castermans-Holleman, The Role of Human Rights in Foreign Policy, 3rd edition (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004). Julie A. Mertus, Bait and Switch: Human Rights and US
Humanitarian Intervention and the War in Iraq: Norms, Discourse, and State Practice
T he failure to find weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq inevitably led to attempts by President George W. Bush and others in his Administration to use humanitarian justifications to defend the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime
Maximizing Human Security: A Utilitarian Argument for Humanitarian Intervention
Virtually all serious works that deal with the subject of humanitarian intervention argue, and sometimes assume, that it should only take place under the most “extreme” or “severe” of human rights
Viewpoint Absolutism and Hate Speech
The Rhetoric of Genocide in U.S. Foreign Policy: Rwanda and Darfur Compared
Journal Article The Rhetoric of Genocide in U.S. Foreign Policy: Rwanda and Darfur Compared Get access Eric A. Heinze Eric A. Heinze ERIC A. HEINZE is an assistant professor of political science and international studies at the University of Oklahoma. His scholarly articles have most recently appeared in the Journal of Human Rights, Parameters, the Journal of Military Ethics, Polity, and the International Journal of Human Rights. His book, Waging…
Civil Peace and the Quest for Truth: The First Amendment Freedoms in Political Philosophy and American Constitutionalism
Journal Article Civil Peace and the Quest for Truth: The First Amendment Freedoms in Political Philosophy and American Constitutionalism Get access Dry Murray. Civil Peace and the Quest for Truth: The First Amendment Freedoms in Political Philosophy and American Constitutionalism. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2004. x, 307 pp. $88.00 (cloth); 29.95 (paper). Eric Heinze Eric Heinze University of London, Queen Mary Search for other works by th…
The New Utopianism: Liberalism, American Foreign Policy, and the War in Iraq
This article explores the extent to which the decision to invade Iraq in 2003 coheres with the normative precepts of liberalism as an international political theory. Beginning with a Lockean liberal theory of the state, this article first examines the evolution of international liberalism in order to identify the fundamental normative postulates of liberal theory as it pertains to international relations, especially regarding the use of military …
Victory in War: Foundations of Modern Military Policy
Victory in War: Foundations of Modern Military Policy. By William C. Martel. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 436p. $35.00. With the United States currently fighting protracted wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq, the question of what it means to achieve victory in war has never been more important for U.S. foreign policy. While policymakers, scholars, and military strategists have studied for millennia how to achieve victory in armed c…
Heir, Celebrity, Martyr, Monster: Legal and Political Legitimacy in Shakespeare and Beyond
Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide by Jacques Semelin
Journal Article Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide by Jacques Semelin Get access Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide by Jacques Semelin. New York, Columbia University Press, 2007. 352 pp. $29.50. Eric A. Heinze Eric A. Heinze University of Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 123, Issue 3, Fall 2008, Pages 509–…
Cumulative jurisprudence and human rights: The example of sexual minorities and hate speech
Leading non-discrimination norms in post-1945 human rights instruments have generally enumerated specified categories for protection, such as race, ethnicity, sex, and religion. They have often omitted express reference to sexual minorities. However, through ‘such as’ or ‘other status’ clauses, or otherwise open-ended phrasing or interpretation, such instruments have generated a ‘cumulative jurisprudence’, whereby sexual minorities subsequently b…
Nonstate Actors in the International Legal Order: The Israeli-Hezbollah Conflict and the Law of Self-Defense
The concern of whether nonstate actors can undertake an “armed attack” that would trigger a state's right to self-defense has acquired new prominence in the post–September 11 world. This article addresses that concern by examining the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict of July 2006. It argues that since the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, states have incurred an increased responsibility for the acts of nonstate actors that operate from their territor…
Imperialism and Nationalism in Early Modernity: The ‘Cosmopolitan’ and The ‘Provincial’ in Shakespeare's Cymbeline
The discourses of conquering empire and vassal nation are varied, often internally contradictory. The empire may represent openness and diversity, or militarist brutality. The underling nation may represent autonomy and self-determination, or narrow provincialism. Those discourses spawn ideologies of liberation (‘the empire liberates the nation’, ‘the nation must be liberated from the empire’) and counter-ideologies of oppression (‘the empire opp…
Waging humanitarian war: The Ethics, Law, and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention
"In this straightforward approach to the perplexing issue of humanitarian intervention, Eric A. Heinze incorporates insights from various strands of ethical, legal, and international relations theory. He identifies the conditions under which humanitarian intervention is morally permissible, establishes the extent to which such an ethical argument can be grounded in international law, and determines which actors are best equipped to undertake this…
The meta-ethics of law: Book One of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
Traditional scholarship has approached Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics mostly as a system of positive ethics. Less attention has been paid to the work’s meta-ethics – the claims Aristotle makes about what any system of positive ethics must say or do in order to count as an ethical theory. In this article, Book One of the Nicomachean Ethics is read not simply as an introduction to Aristotle’s system of positive ethics, but as a statement of distinc…
Public awareness of human rights: Distortions in the mass media
The mass media decisively shape global perceptions about human rights, yet fail to reflect the realities of global violations. Situations of egregious abuse are often overshadowed by those which receive attention for reasons extraneous to any specific concern for human rights. Distortions in established media sources arise not necessarily from deliberate misrepresentation, but from the inevitable disparities that arise when human rights abuses ar…
He'd turn the world itself into a prison’: Discourses of Empire and Nation in Racine's Alexander the Great
The review and analysis of Jean Racine's 'Alexander the Great' and the discourses of Empire and Nation as seen in it are discussed. The empire may serve its function of overcoming local rivalries through an imposed peace; however, it may just as easily become a force that fuels a rivalry which has otherwise lain dormant
The State of Sovereignty: Territories, Laws, Populations – Edited by Douglas Howland and Luise White Humanitarian Intervention: Confronting the Contradictions – Edited by Michael Newman
The evolution of international law in light of the ‘global War on Terror’
This article explores how various aspects of the ‘global War on Terror’ may be affecting the future development of international law on the use of force. I examine these effects within three areas of international law – the law of anticipatory self-defence, the law of self-defence against non-state actors, and the applicability of international humanitarian law to non-state armed groups. Only in the latter two areas do I find evidence that intern…
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