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The concept of rights in the justification of the “just war”

Filosofia Unisinos, 2012
The theory of “just war” of Walzer, is a theory about the justification of states to go to war, as presented in his book: Just and unjust wars, whose central thesis is based on the following proposition: the only justification for going to war is the ...
Raúl Andrés Jaramillo Echavarría
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In Defense of the “Conventional Account” of the Jus ad Bellum

AJIL Unbound, 2018
States sometimes choose to break the law. International lawyers should seek to understand instances of illegality, particularly when they involve the unlawful use of force.
Tess Bridgeman
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A Review of 'Law's Impunity: Responsibility and the Modern Private Military Company'

Journal of Human Security, 2016
The mercenaries and mercenarism are two points of concern for scholars studying the rules of war throughout history. Both in jus ad bellum (JAB) and jus in bellum (JIB) we can find a framework of international law crafted to impede the participation of ...
Marcos Alan S. V. Ferreira
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Starting and Stopping Wars

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 2, Page 96-106, June 2025.
ABSTRACT If a warring side may fight in pursuit of an aim up to some proportionality‐respecting limit, then an important question is whether that side is morally required to stop fighting when it reaches that limit, despite not yet having attained its aim.
Gerald Lang
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Virtuous leadership: Ambiguities, challenges, and precedents

Metaphilosophy, Volume 55, Issue 4-5, Page 566-581, October 2024.
Abstract Virtuous leadership is the focus of a growing body of academic literature but is little discussed by contemporary philosophers. Current treatments tend to over‐generalisation: assimilating diverse features to a few broad categories and applying simplified ethical theories.
John Haldane
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Nuclear Threats Under International Law Part II: Applying the Law

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
Throughout the nuclear age, states have made a wide array of threats to use nuclear weapons. There is, however, often little clarity as to whether such threats are legal or illegal under international law. This article is the second in a two-part series,
Anna Hood, Monique Cormier
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The Baltic states should adopt the self-defence pinpricks doctrine: the “accumulation of events” threshold as a deterrent to Russian hybrid warfare

Journal on Baltic Security, 2017
This article addresses a key legal debate that the Baltic NATO members ought to engage in: what constitutes an “armed attack” and what interpretation should be made of this concept in order to deter recent Russian hybrid warfare strategies.
Nader Philippe Bou
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Soft Law in Jus in Bello and Jus ad Bellum: What Lessons for Business and Human Rights?

AJIL Unbound, 2020
This contribution, rather than focusing on the debates within the Business and Human Rights (BHR) domain itself, offers a comparison between soft law regulation in the BHR context, on the one hand, and in the jus in bello (JIB) and jus ad bellum (JAB ...
Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg
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Law, political economy and war reparation: The case of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Law &Policy, Volume 46, Issue 2, Page 170-196, April 2024.
Abstract What are the after‐effects of the Bosnia and Herzegovinian (BH) transition from a post‐socialist, post‐genocide, and post‐ethno‐nationalist state into a European liberal democracy? This article makes a case for war reparation and argues that while poverty reduction has not been among the stated aims of transitional justice mechanisms, it is of
Alma Begicevic
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The Deontological and Consequentialist Principles of Jihad and the Just War Theory in Indonesian Context: A Critical Analysis

Jurnal Indo-Islamika, 2015
Tradisi perang berbasis keadilan dapat ditemukan dalam sejarah pemikiran politik Islam pada masa awal khalifah Islam. Dalam kajian ini, penulis menggunakan dua pisau analisis yaitu interpretasi tekstual terhadap Alquran dan Hadis, dan interpretasi ...
Najamudin Najamudin
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