War and Self-Defense

Contents......Page 16
Introduction......Page 18
The argument......Page 20
The status of moral claims......Page 24
War and consequentialism......Page 27
PART I: SELF-DEFENSE......Page 32
Hohfeld's building blocks......Page 34
The logical structure of rights......Page 38
Having a right and being in the right......Page 40
Justification and excuse......Page 43
A three-legged stool......Page 52
Defense as a derivative right......Page 53
Limits on the right: necessity, imminence, proportionality......Page 57
The bounds of proportionality......Page 60
3. Consequences and Forced Choice......Page 66
The lesser evil......Page 68
Forced choice......Page 72
The resilience of responsibility......Page 76
Forfeiture and rights of limited scope......Page 87
The role of fault......Page 94
Innocent threats and innocent aggressors......Page 96
Objective wrongdoing......Page 100
Moral subjects......Page 105
The variety of excuses......Page 107
PART II: NATIONAL-DEFENSE......Page 118
5. International Law......Page 120
National-defense in international law......Page 121
Limits of the right......Page 127
The need for a normative foundation......Page 132
The two levels of war......Page 139
The reductive strategy......Page 144
Imminent and conditional threats......Page 149
War and the protection of persons......Page 155
7. War and The Common Life......Page 158
Political association......Page 161
The character of common lives......Page 166
Communal integrity and self-determination......Page 171
The myth of discrete communities......Page 175
A paradox in the Just War Theory......Page 180
The responsibility of soldiers......Page 182
War and law enforcement......Page 190
The argument for a universal state......Page 196
9. Conclusion: Morality and Realism......Page 206
Bibliography......Page 217
E......Page 226
M......Page 227
R......Page 228
W......Page 229
Y......Page 230