Nobody wins the victory taboo in just war theory

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ID11158735
AutoresCian O’driscoll (0000-0003-1427-2747, University of Glasgow), Cian O'Driscoll (0000-0002-9995-7923, University of Glasgow, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume42
Fascículo7
Páginas901-919
Data de publicação2019-11-10
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Strategic Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0140-2390 • E-ISSN: 1743-937X
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01402390.2019.1588118
OpenAlexW2913409076
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas36

This article examines how scholars of the just war tradition think about the ethical dilemmas that arise in the endgame phase of modern warfare. In particular, it focuses upon their reticence to engage the idiom of ‘victory’. Why, it asks, have scholars been so reluctant to talk about what it means to ‘win’ a just war? It contends that, while just war scholars may have good reason to be sceptical about ‘victory’, engaging it would grant them a more direct view of the critical potentialities, but also the limitations, of just war reasoning

Chess endgame · Epistemology · nobody · Political science · Politics · Skepticism · Taboo · Victory · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Law · Philosophy · Torture, Ethics, and Law · War, Ethics, and Justification