International Justice as Equal Regard and the Use of Force

Ethics and International Affairs

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 63-75

  Elshtain, Jean Bethke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

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EID: 2142724250     PISSN: 08926794     EISSN: 17477093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-7093.2003.tb00439.x     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. Joseph S. Nye, Jr., “U.S. Power and Strategy after Iraq,” Foreign Affairs 82, no. 4 (July/August 2003), p. 68. As Nye points out, “the UN is torn between the strict West-phalian interpretation of state sovereignty and the rise of international humanitarian and human rights law that sets limits on what leaders can do to their citizens. To complicate matters further, politics has made the UN Charter virtually impossible to amend” (p. 68).
2. Samantha Power, “Genocide and America,” New York Review of Books (March 14, 2002), p. 17.
3. Paul W. Kahn, “War and Sacrifice in Kosovo,” Philosophy & Public Policy 19 (Spring/Summer 1999); available at www.puaf.umd.edu/IPPP/spring_summer99/kosovo.htm.
4. This is a complex cultural development. But something has happened over the past four decades that drains the Judeo-Christian tradition, for Christians or “post-Christians,” at least, of the powerful images of God as sovereign, as the instigator and enforcer of justice, central to the Old Testament and absorbed, therefore, into New Testament teaching. I grapple with this issue in my recent book, Just War against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World (New York: Basic Books, 2003); see especially chs. 7 and 8.
5. Power, “Genocide and America,” p. 18.