HUMAN 1A Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Simone Weil, Communitarianism, Skill
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States driven by self-interest (reason of state, realpolitik) b. Michael walzer b. v. states must justify their actions on moral as well as political grounds) c. Reason to go to war, justice of war d. How you fight, what you do to win, justice in war. Jus ad bellum: right to engage in war, aggression by another state = crime c. (legalist paradigm of international relations) What realism and just war theory hold in common: domestic analogy b. International relations between states modeled on relations between individuals within a state b. i. Attempts at international organization: 1648 peace of westphalia (state sovereignty a nation is sovereign within its own borders, 1815 congress of vienna (balance of power, 1919 league of nations, 1945 united nations. 61-630: there exists an international society of independent states, this international society has a law that established the rights of its members b. i.
