POL101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Jus Ad Bellum, Pragmatics, September 11 Attacks
Document Summary
Just war in the 21st century: reconceptualizing just war theory after september 11. This paper provides a reconceptualization of both the pragmatic and moral bases of just war theory and its relation to the war on terror. More specifically, the paper reframes jus ad bellum and jus in bello, taking into consideration rogue states, weapons of mass destruction, and non- state terrorist actors and networks. In addition, the paper discusses the application of jus post bellum criteria and proposes that cold war containment policies provide a model for advancing an ethical and practical war on terror. Just war theory has been used to limit and critique the decision to go to war and the methods employed upon the battlefield. Unfortunately, however, at the beginning of the 21st century most writing on just war and the contemporary war on terror is flawed for at least two reasons.
