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Home > Resources > Ethics & International Affairs Journal > Volume 11 (1997) > Special Section: Twenty Years of Michael Walzer's Just and Unjust Wars |
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Just and Unjust Wars Revisited (Introduction)
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December 4, 1997
As the following papers demonstrate, Michael Walzer’s Just and Unjust
Wars continues to provoke thought and debate two decades after its
publication. The book remains widely taught in college courses and is cited
whenever the morality of war is discussed. It is appropriate, then, to celebrate
the book’s twentieth anniversary by reconsidering its arguments in light of what
we have learned in the intervening years. The papers were discussed at a
symposium hosted by the Carnegie Council in May 1996 and have been revised to
take account of the conversation that occurred there. David Hendrickson takes
issue with the book’s criticism of realism, pointing to realist elements in
Walzer’s own argument. Theodore Koontz provides a careful analysis of some
problems in Walzer’s treatment of the noncombatant immunity principle. Both
papers deal with the tension in Walzer’s book between a morality of rights and a
morality of consequences, a tension that Joseph Boyle illuminates in his
contribution. And in a paper inspired by the symposium debate, Michael Joseph
Smith provides an appreciation that serves as a readable introduction to the
issues considered by the other contributors. Finally, Michael Walzer responds in
what, if past is prologue, won’t be the last word on the argument of Just
and Unjust Wars.
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