ATS2640 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jus Ad Bellum, Just War Theory, Asymmetric Warfare
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Administrative: won"t be using powerpoint, expected to not bring a laptop etc to lectures. You must summarise in one sentence what the author of the reading is arguing in the form " author argues that " Notes: pacifism embraces the idea of ethics but argues that global conflict is never ethical, realism denies that the question of ethics arises in relation to conflict between nation-state. If we reject pacifism and reject realism as most people do the actions and affairs of nations including war must be susceptible to ethical argument and justification there is right and wrong aim international relations. Just war theory - a historical and ongoing argument about when states or individuals are justified in going to war and what sorts of things are morally permissible during war - michael. Walker calls this practice of argument the war convention: the just war theory plays in making war possible, three parts to the just war theory.
