HUMAN 1A Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Just War Theory, Jus Ad Bellum, Michael Walzer
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Some wars are just (not necessarily good) as opposed to unjust. Same way that individuals are driven by self interest. People will seek to get whatever advantage they can. Just war (cicero, st. augustine, st. thomas aquinas, michael walzer) States must justify their actions on moral as well as political grounds. Right to engage in war in the first place. What realism and just war theory hold in common. International relations between states modeled on relations between individuals within a state. Attempts at international organization between individuals within a state. City composed of individuals, govs are meant to reside over difference between individuals, Its up to each nation state to take care of its own. Its perview is not relative to that of other states. Peace of westphalia (state sovereignty: what happens in a state is its own business) Congress of vienna (balance of power: no one nation state should be so powerful that it can overrun the others)
