Journal article
War, duties to protect, and military abolitionism
- Abstract:
- Just war theorists who argue that war is morally justified under certain circumstances infer implicitly that establishing the military institutions needed to wage war is also morally justified. In this paper, I mount a case in favor of a standing military establishment: to the extent that going to war is a way to discharge duties to protect fellow citizens and distant strangers from grievous harms, we have a duty to set up the institutions that enable us to discharge that duty. I then respond to four objections drawn from Ned Dobos's recent book Ethics, Security, and the War-Machine.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Preview, Accepted manuscript, 199.9KB, Terms of use)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1017/S089267942100037X
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Journal:
- Ethics and International Affairs More from this journal
- Volume:
- 35
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 395-406
- Publication date:
- 2021-10-21
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-07-20
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1747-7093
- ISSN:
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0892-6794
- Language:
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English
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- Pubs id:
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1187142
- Local pid:
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pubs:1187142
- Deposit date:
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2021-07-21
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- Copyright holder:
- Cécile Fabre
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- Copyright © The Author, 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Cambridge University Press at https://doi.org/10.1017/S089267942100037X
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