Book contents
- Just War and Ordered Liberty
- Just War and Ordered Liberty
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Thinking about War
- 2 The Augustinian Tradition
- 3 The Transition
- 4 The Westphalian Tradition
- 5 Competing Visions of a Liberal Tradition
- 6 Augustinian Liberalism
- 7 Just War and Ordered Liberty
- 8 Case Studies
- 9 Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index
7 - Just War and Ordered Liberty
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2021
- Just War and Ordered Liberty
- Just War and Ordered Liberty
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Thinking about War
- 2 The Augustinian Tradition
- 3 The Transition
- 4 The Westphalian Tradition
- 5 Competing Visions of a Liberal Tradition
- 6 Augustinian Liberalism
- 7 Just War and Ordered Liberty
- 8 Case Studies
- 9 Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
I draw insights from the Augustinian and Liberal traditions and, to a lesser extent, the Westphalian tradition to offer ordered liberty as a central organizing concept for just war thinking. Ordered liberty is the rightful purpose of statecraft, the just aim of the state—which means it is also the just purpose of warfare. This helps answer the two questions animating this book. When is war just? The violent disruption of ordered liberty is the “injury” in response to which force may be used and war may be justly waged. What does justice require? Justice requires the vindication and restoration of ordered liberty in, through, and after warfare. The upshot of this argument is that while just cause is more expansive than is conventionally understood, the responsibilities of post-conflict restoration are commensurably far higher.
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- Just War and Ordered Liberty , pp. 176 - 199Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021