Donald Secrest

Biographic Data

ID962901
NAMEDonald Secrest
GIVEN NAMESDonald
FAMILY NAMESecrest
SIGNATURESECREST D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Oklahoma
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS18
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1991
H-INDEX2

  • Moral Justifications for Resort To War With Nicaragua

    Open AccessDonald Secrest, Gregory G Brunk et al.ARTICLEThe Western Political Quarterly1991References: 7

    mong ethicists, a debate rages over the applicability and use- fulness of the just war ethic (Yoder 1984).Critics question the ~.credibility of the just war tradition, arguing that just war precepts are either so ambiguous or so watered-down that they can offer no moral guidance.Supposedly, policy-makers end up embracing either moral crusades or a &dquo;blank check&dquo; national interest ethic, even though the rhetoric of just war ethics might b…

  • Moral Justifications for Resort to War with Nicaragua

    Donald Secrest, Gregory G Brunk et al.ARTICLEThe Western Political Quarterly1991

    Donald Secrest, Gregory G. Brunk, Howard Tamashiro, Moral Justifications for Resort to War with Nicaragua: The Attitudes of Three American Elite Groups, The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Sep., 1991), pp. 541-559

  • Empirical Investigation of Normative Discourse on War

    Open AccessDonald Secrest, Gregory G Brunk et al.ARTICLEJournal of Peace Research1991Cited by: 2References: 2

    Quantitative and analytical social scientists increasingly have become interested in analyzing traditional normative problems. In this article we discuss the operationalization of conjectures contained in the Donagan—Aquinas thesis about the agreement of lay people and ethicists with the substantive content of the system of common morality concerning use of force. The thesis focuses on the complexity of reasoning at various levels in a claimed li…

  • Military Views of Morality and War

    Gregory G Brunk, Donald Secrest et al.ARTICLEInternational Studies Quarterly1990Cited by: 15References: 4

    Journal Article Military Views of Morality and War: An Empirical Study of the Attitudes of Retired American Officers Get access Gregory G. Brunk, Gregory G. Brunk University of Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Donald Secrest, Donald Secrest University of Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Howard Tamashiro Howard Tamashiro Allegheny College Search for o…

  • The Underlying Structure of Ethical Beliefs toward War

    Open AccessHoward Tamashiro, Gregory G Brunk et al.ARTICLEJournal of Peace Research1989Cited by: 1References: 3

    Behavioralists have tended to neglect the study of ethics as unimportant to an understanding of political behavior and its various manifestations, such as international conflict. In our analysis we examine the attitudes of a sample of retired American military officers toward war and war waging issues in order to infer the more fundamental nature of the ethical constraints that are embedded within the decision making of these individuals. Three f…