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Learning objectives (1 items)i) to reinforce the appropriate application of methodologies in an interdisciplinary context; ii) to constitute a content and/or concept base for the specialised courses of Part 3;iii) to develop further students’ learning capacities through increasingly activeparticipation in seminars and the production of sustained argument and analysis in writtenwork;iv) to enable students to chart, and engage with, changing debates about social theoreticaland philosophical reflection on war and violence;v) to provide a critical and foundation for the study of global conflict in the following termsby introducing students to key explanations of warfare and genocide

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the unit's work students will be expected to have demonstrated a reasonablecommand of, and familiarity with, both the content of the unit, and the academic skillsadumbrated above through weekly participation in seminars, including at least onepresentation of about 15 minutes, and planning and writing an essay of 1,500 words.

 

Unit Description

The unit introduces students to the conceptual, historical and political uses and abuses ofpolitical violence. The first block begins with a conceptual exploration of violence, followedby a seminar on questions of explanation, structure and agency, as well as responsibilityand complicity. Students are then asked to consider whether wars, "humanitarianinterventions", terrorism, and torture can ever be "justified", and invited to critically reflecton the nature of this question. Students then continue with an investigation of whether ornot (potential) recourse to violence is a necessary pre-condition of the very existence ofpolitical communities, and whether violence is an intrinsic and essential feature of politicalconduct. This investigation is followed by a critical analysis of Fanon's, Arendt's, andAgamben's accounts of violence, respectively.

 

Assessment Structure

At least 70% attendance at seminars and lectures, pass mark in seminars and in essay.

 

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Essay Submission Date and Length

Friday noon, week 8, 1800 words

 

Essay Titles

1) Can violence be structural? Critically evaluate with reference to the dispute betweenGaltung and Coady.

2) Do social structures limit moral agency? Critically assess MacIntyre's argument.

3) Write a critical book review of one of the books you find in the "further readings".

4) Can war be morally just?

5) Critically assess the "Responsibility to Protect" doctrine.

6) Critically engage with the arguments put forward by Honderich in After the Terror ORJackson in Writing the War on Terrorism.

7) Is torture really never justified?

8) What role(s) do states of exception play in contemporary state violence?

9) Is rationality just another form of more sophisticated violence? Discuss in relation toPlato's argument with Thrasymachus.

10) What role might violence play in securing the limits of a political community? Is thisviolence justifiable? Discuss in relation to Aristotle's account of the polity.

11) How do Hobbes and Rousseau address the question of violence in relation to thepolitical community? Are their respective views justified?

12) What are the limits of the realist account of politics?

13) In situations of extreme oppression, is it justifiable to regard violence as a cleansingforce?

14) How convincing is Arendt's defence of the distinctions between 'war and politics' and'violence and power'?

15) Negotiate a title with tutors.

 

Assessment Criteria

See Student Handbook.

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Block 1: War and violence in social theory (13 items)

Lecture Week 1: Who belongs to the Body Politic? Plato’s Republic andAristotle’s Politics (2 items)Case Study for Seminar Discussion: The Deportation Policies of the UK government, and the situation of migrants in Calais.

Seminar:

When is the use of violence by the political authorities justifiable?

Is reason just another form of violence?

How should one determine who belongs to a political community?

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/immigration-rules Part 13

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/feb/13/civil-liberties-immigration

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/sep/04/migrants-calais-desperate-attempts-reach-britain

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/aug/10/inside-calais-migrants-makeshift-camps

Key reading (5 items)

The Republic - Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee, M. S. Lane, Plato, 2007Book | Key

The Internet Classics Archive | The Republic by PlatoWebpage | Key

The politics - T. A. Sinclair, Trevor J. Saunders, Aristotle, 1981Book | Key | Book One and Book Five

The Internet Classics Archive | Politics by AristotleWebpage | Key | Book One

The Internet Classics Archive | Politics by AristotleWebpage | Key | Book Five

Further reading (6 items)

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The Cambridge companion to Aristotle - Jonathan Barnes, 1995Book | Further

The Greek philosophers from Thales to Aristotle - W. K. C. Guthrie, 1967Book | Further

The Greek philosophers from Thales to Aristotle - W. K. C. Guthrie, 1967Book | Further

An introduction to Plato's Republic - Julia Annas, 1981Book | Further

Plato - R. M. Hare, 1982Book | Further

The Plato reader - T. D. J. Chappell, Plato, c1996Book | Further

Lecture Week 2: Violence and the Social Contract: Hobbes andRousseau on rights over Life and Death (10 items)

Seminar: (1 items)-Would a society without political authority revert to a war of all against all?-Can a General Will ever be preserved without recourse to violence?-Have criminals violated an implicit social contract?

Seminar:

Would a society without political authority revert to a war of all against all?

Can a General Will ever be preserved without recourse to violence?

Have criminals violated an implicit social contract?

 

Case Study for Seminar Discussion:

Tony Blair on the New Social Contract

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2002/nov/10/queensspeech2002.tonyblair

Key reading (4 items)

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The social contract - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice Cranston, 2004Book | Key | Book 1: sections 3,4, 7; Book 2: Sections 1-5; Book 3: sections 11-14

The social contract - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Maurice Cranston, 1968Book | Key | Book 1: sections 3,4, 7;

Book 2: Sections 1-5; Book 3: sections 11-14

The Social Contract, by Jean-Jacques Rousseau : contentsWebpage | Key | Book 1: sections 3,4, 7; Book 2: Sections 1-5; Book 3: sections 11-14

Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes, C. B. Macpherson, 1981Book | Key | ‘Of Man’, Chapters XIII, XIV, XVI and ‘of Commonwealth’, Chapters XVIII,

XXI, XXVII, IXXX, XXXI

Further reading (5 items)

Authority and the liberal tradition: from Hobbes to Rorty - Robert A. Heineman, c1994Book | Further

The Cambridge companion to Hobbes - Tom Sorell, 1996Book | Further

Rousseau - Robert Wokler, 1995Book | Further

Rousseau: a very short introduction - Robert Wokler, 2001Book | Further

Rousseau - Timothy O'Hagan, 2003Book | Further

Lecture Week 3: Realism and Warfare (8 items)

Seminar:

Is politics simply war by other means?

Is it ever justifiable to use violence in order to preserve political authority?

Is violence simply another strategy to maintain political power?

 

Case Study for Seminar Discussion:

'The Bush Doctrine';

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/oct/09/usa.iraq1

Key reading (3 items)

The prince -Niccolo Machiavelli, 1908

Book | Key | Chapters V, VIII, X, XII, XIII, XIV, XVIII, XIX, XXV and Introduction

The Prince - Niccolò MachiavelliWebpage | Key | Chapters V, VIII, X, XII, XIII, XIV, XVIII, XIX, XXV and Introduction

Six Principles of Political Realism - H.J. MorgenthauChapter | Key

Further reading (4 items)

Machiavelli - Quentin Skinner, 1981Book | Further

Mearsheimer's World-Offensive Realism and the Struggle for Security: A Review Essay -Glenn H. Snyder, 2002

Article | Further

Political Realism in International Relations - Korab-Karpowicz, W. JulianArticle | Further

Machiavelli - Maurizio Viroli, 1998Book | Further

Lecture Week 4: Violence in the Revolutionary Tradition: Franz Fanon(16 items)

Seminar:

In the context of colonial oppression is 'violence a cleansing and unifying force'? (Fanon)

Can violence, in the context of oppression, heal the wounds that it inflicts? (Sartre)

 

Case Study for Seminar Discussion:

The Algerian revolution against French Colonial Rule

Evans, Martin, Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed, 2007, pp. 58-67.

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Algeria: anger of the dispossessed - Martin Evans, John Phillips, 2007Book | pp. 58-67.

Key reading (2 items)

Concerning Violence - Frantz FanonChapter | Key

The wretched of the earth - Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Jean-Paul Sartre, 1965Book | Key | Introduction.

Further reading (12 items)

Frantz Fanon: critical perspectives - Anthony Alessandrini, 1999Book | Further

On Humanizing Abstractions: The Path beyond Fanon - M. A. Bamyeh, 2010-12-01Article | Further

After Fanon - c2002Book | Further

Introduction: Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth 50 Years On - V. Bell, 2010-12-01Article | Further

Fanon and Political Will - 2011Article

Theory, Culture & Society - Vikki Bell, December 2010Journal | Further | See also the other articles in the special section in this issue

Fanon's postcolonial cosmopolitanism - J. Go, 2013-05-01Article | Further

Concerning Maoism: Fanon, Revolutionary Violence, and Postcolonial India - P. Gopal,2013-01-01

Article | Further

Fanon, the Wretched and Boko Haram - W. W. Hansen, U. A. Musa, 2013-06-01Article | Further

Torture Unveiled: Rereading Fanon and Bourdieu in the Context of May 1958 - A. Haddour,2010-12-01

Article | Further

'There Are No Blacks in France': Fanonian Discourse, 'the Dark Night of Slavery' and theFrench Civilizing Mission Reconsidered - F. Verges, 2010-12-01

Article | Further

Fanon for beginners - Deborah Wyrick, 1998Book | Further

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Lecture Week 5: Hannah Arendt: War versus Politics; Violence versusPower (14 items)

Seminar:

Is Arendt's defence of the distinctions between 'war and politics', and 'violence and power'convincing?

What are the key elements of Arendt's critique of revolutionary violence? Do you find hercritique convincing?

 

Case Study for Seminar Discussion: 1968 and the uses of Political Violence:

Malcolm X: The Ballot or the Bullet reprinted in On Violence: A Reader edited by Lawrenceand Farim, pp. 143-158

On violence: a reader - Bruce B. Lawrence, Aisha Karim, c2007Book | Key | Malcolm X: The Ballot or the Bullet . pp 143-158

Key reading (3 items)

On violence - Hannah Arendt, 1970Book | Key

Introduction - Hannah ArendtChapter

On revolution - Hannah Arendt, 2009Book | Key | Introduction

Further reading (9 items)

The paradox of political violence - M. M. Ayyash, 2013-08-01Article | Further

Arendt's Machiavellian moment - F. Baluch, 2014-04-01Article | Further

Violence and power: a critique of Hannah Arendt on the ‘political’ - Keith BreenArticle | Further

Hannah Arendt's Critique of Violence - C. J. Finlay, 2009-05-01Article | Further

The promise of the unforgiven: Violence, power and paradox in Arendt - A. K. Hirsch,2013-01-01

Article | Further

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Mass atrocity, ordinary evil, and Hannah Arendt: criminal consciousness in Argentina'sDirty War - Mark Osiel, c2001

Book | Further

Between war and politics: international relations and the thought of Hannah Arendt -Patricia Owens, 2009

Book | Further

Arendt - David Watson, 1992Book | Further

The Cambridge companion to Hannah Arendt - Dana Richard Villa, 2000Book | Further

Week 6 READING WEEK

Lecture Week 7 (topic 6): States of Exception (15 items)

Seminar:

-          What do you understand by the term 'State of Exception' or 'State of Emergency'?How does it help us to understand the legal black hole of Guantanamo Bay?

-          Should states have a right to exercise such emergency powers?

-          Does the exercise of the power to declare such a state legitimate the right to kill?

-          Is all political life ultimately defined by the ability to determine who the enemy is?

 

Case Study for Seminar Discussion:

Guantanamo Bay and practices of secret detention and rendition:

http://www.therenditionproject.org.uk/index.html

http://www.jurist.org/feature/featured/guantanamo/detail.php

Puchner, Martin, 'Guantanamo Bay', London Review of Books 26:4 16 December 2004,available at http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n24/martin-puchner/guantanamo-bay

(you will need to register (free))

Key reading (5 items)

The concept of the political - Carl Schmitt, Carl Schmitt, c2007Book | Key | Sections 4-7

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The concept of the political - Carl Schmitt, George Schwab, 1996Book | Key | Sections 4-7

State of exception as a paradigm of governmentWebpage | Key

State of exception - Giorgio Agamben, 2005Book | Key | Chapter 1

State of exception - Giorgio Agamben, 2005Book | Key | Chapter 1

Further reading (9 items)

Homo Sacer: sovereign power and bare life - Giorgio Agamben, c1998Book | Further

Means without end: notes on politics - Giorgio Agamben, Vincenzo Binetti, Cesare Casarino, c2000

Book | Further

Terror and Territory: Guantanamo and the Space of Contradiction - J. Comaroff,2007-04-01

Article | Further

Sovereign Power, Zones of Indistinction, and the Camp - Jenny Edkins, 2000Article | Further

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political - R. B. J. Walker, January 2000Journal | Further | See other articles in this special issue

Sovereign lives: power in global politics - Jenny Edkins, Michael Shapiro,Veronique Pin-Fat, 2004

Book | Further

The Jargon of Exception – on Schmitt, Agamben and the Absence of Political Society’ - J.Huysmans

Article | Further

Human Rights as Geopolitics: Carl Schmitt and the Legal Form of American Supremacy -William Rasch, 2003

Article | Further

Carl Schmitt, Political Existentialism, and the Total State - Richard Wolin, 1990Article | Further

Block 2: War, Terror and Human Rights (19 items)

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Lecture Week 8 (topic 7): The Idea of Violence (1 items)

Seminar: Please make sure you enter the seminar with three points that refer to thelecture and readings: questions, ideas, criticisms, and so on. Please make sure you've gotthese written down. You should aim to have one point in relation to each reading. At thebeginning of the seminar, we will 'collect' a couple of points from each of you and structureour seminar discussion around them (as well as the presentation(s)).

What is violence?

Does it make sense to speak of 'structural' violence? Critically evaluate Galtung's claimthat 'violence is present when human beings are being influenced so that their actualsomatic and mental realizations are below their potential realizations' - particularly in lightof Coady's critique. Is poverty violence?

 

Case Study for Seminar Discussion: Case study discussions will usually wrap up theseminar. Today's topic is: Are amazon employees subjected to violence?

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/01/week-amazon-insider-feature-treatment-employees-work

Key reading (7 items)

The idea of violence - C.A.J. CoadyWebpage | Key

Violence, Peace, and Peace Research - Johan Galtung, 1969Article | Key

Is poverty violence? - Steven LeeWebpage | Key

Violence: six sideways reflections - SlavojZizek, 2009

Book | pp 1-20

Violence: six sideways reflections - SlavojZizek, c2008

Book | Key | pp 1-20

Violence: six sideways reflections - Slavoj

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Zizek, 2008

Book | Key | pp 1-20

On the Violence of Systemic Violence: A Critique of Slavoj Žižek’ - Harry van der LindenWebpage | Key

Further reading (11 items)

On violence - Hannah Arendt, 1970Book | Further

On violence: a reader - Bruce B. Lawrence, Aisha Karim, c2007Book | Further | Benjamin, Walter, ‘A Critique of Violence’

Two Concepts of Violence - Vittorio Bufacchi, 2005-04Article | Further

Precarious life: the powers of mourning and violence - Judith Butler, 2004Book | Further | Particularly Chapter 2

Frames of war: when is life grievable? - Judith Butler, 2009Book | Further | Introduction, particularly pp. 1–32.

Frames of war: when is life grievable? - Judith Butler, 2010Book | Further | Introduction, particularly pp. 1–32.

Cultural violence - John Galtung, 1990Article | Further

On violence: a reader - Bruce B. Lawrence, Aisha Karim, c2007Book | Further | This book contains a number of excellent articles

Reflections on violence - John Keane, 1996Book | Further

Violence & society - Larry J. Ray, 2011Book | Further

On Violence - Robert Paul Wolff, 1969-10-02Article | Further

Lecture Week 9 (topic 8): Social Structures, Moral Agency, Complicity (1items)

Seminar:

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Critically evaluate MacIntyre's position that "the divided self is complicit with others inbringing about its own divided states and so can be justly regarded as their co-author. Itand those others can justifiably be called to account for what they have jointly made ofthemselves. They may indeed inhabit a type of social and cultural order whose structuresto some large degree inhibit the exercise of the powers of moral agency. But they share inresponsibility for having made themselves into the kind of diminished agent that they are."Are citizens – in their various roles as soldiers, farmers, voters, tax-payers, and bystanders– morally responsible for not refusing to be, somehow, "involved" in (a) aggressive warfareand/or (b) other types of violence (either through acting or being indifferent)? MacIntyre'sis a difficult argument, but I want you to understand it.

Critically evaluate Glover's account of "moral distancing".

Are citizens of Western democracies "complicit" in various forms of violence? Engage withthe arguments in favour of sweatshops by Henderson, Kristof and Krugman.

 

Case Study for Seminar Discussion: Are Sweatshops a good thing?

 

Henderson, David R., 'The Case for Sweatshops', The Weekly Standard (February 2000),online at http://www.davidrhenderson.com/David_R._Henderson/Popular_Articles_files/The%20Case%20for%20Sweatshops.pdf

 

Kristof, Nicholas D., 'In Praise of the Maligned Sweatshop', New York Times (6 June 2006,online at http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/06/opinion/06kristof.html?_r=0

  

Krugman, Paul, 'In Praise of Cheap Labour: Bad Jobs at Bad Wages Are Better Than No Jobsat All', Slate Magazine, March 1997, online at

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/1997/03/in_praise_of_cheap_labor.html

 

Key and further reading (12 items)

Social Structures and Their Threats to Moral Agency - Alasdair MacIntyre, 1999Article | Key

Causing death and saving lives - Jonathan GloverChapter | Key

Minimum Utopia: Ten Theses by Norman Geras

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Webpage | Further

The contract of mutual indifference - Norman GerasArticle | Further

Complicity: ethics and law for a collective age - Christopher Kutz, 2000Book | Further

On complicity and compromise - Chiara Lepora, Robert E. Goodin, 2013Book | Further

On complicity and compromise - Chiara Lepora, Robert E. Goodin, 2013Book | Further

On human rights: the Oxford Amnesty Lectures 1993 - Stephen Shute, S. L. Hurley,Amnesty International, c1993

Book | Further | Rorty, Richard, ‘Human Rights, Rationality, and Sentimentality’ pp111-134

Human Rights, Rationality, and Sentimentality - Richard RortyWebpage | Further

Famine, Affluence, and Morality - Peter Singer, 1972Article | Further

Political ethics and public office - Dennis F. Thompson, 1998Book | Further | Chapter 1, pp 11-39

Law and irresponsibility: on the legitimation of human suffering - Scott Veitch, 2007Book | Further

Lecture Week 10 (topic 9): War and Justice (1 items)

Seminar:

Is war subject to moral judgement?

If so, can war be morally justified? (And is this the right question to ask?)

Evaluate the challenges posed to Walzer by Kochi and Neu.

Is the idea of just warfare dangerous? Why?

 

Case Studies for Seminar Discussion:

1) Michael Gove: Was the First World War a Just War?

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2532923/Michael-Gove-blasts-Blackadder-myths-First-World-War-spread-television-sit-coms-left-wing-academics.html

 

2) Are pacifists fascists? Evaluate George Orwell's claim!

http://www.orwell.ru/library/articles/pacifism/english/e_patw

 

Key reading (37 items)

Just war theory: a reappraisal - Mark Evans, c2005Book | Key | Conclusion: in defence of just war theory pp 203-222

Conculsion: In Defense of Just War Theory - Mark EvansChapter | Key

The Crime of War - Michael WalzerChapter | Key

Questioning just war thinking - T. KochiChapter | Key

The new order of war - Robert Brecher, c2010Book | Key | Kochi, Tarik, ‘Questioning Just War Thinking: A Critique of Walzer’

The supreme emergency of war: a critique of Walzer - M. Neu, 2014-02-01Article | Key

Further reading (31 items)

Just wars: from Cicero to Iraq - Alex J. Bellamy, 2006Book | Further

Morality and political violence - C. A. J. Coady, 2008Book | Further

The ethics of war and peace: an introduction - Helen Frowe, 2011Book | Further

The ethics of war and peace: an introduction - Helen Frowe, 2011Book | Further

The ethics of war and peace: cosmopolitan and other perspectives - Nigel Dower, c2009Book | Further

Just war against terror: the burden of American power in a violent world - Jean BethkeElshtain, c2003

Book | Further

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Just war theory: a reappraisal - Mark Evans, c2005Book | Further

Cosmopolitan war -Cecile Fabre, 2012

Book | Further

The just war myth: the moral illusions of war - Andrew G. Fiala, c2008Book | Further

The just war myth: the moral illusions of war - Andrew G. Fiala, c2008Book | Further

In Defense of Realism: A Commentary on Just and Unjust Wars - David C. Hendrickson,1997-3

Article | Further

On war and morality - Robert L. Holmes, c1989Book | Further

Killing in war - Jeff McMahan, 2009Book | Further

Killing in war - Jeff McMahan, 2009Book | Further

Self-defence and Forcing the Choice between Lives - SEUMAS MILLER, 1992-10Article | Further

War and Massacre - Thomas Nagel, 1972Article | Further

The tragedy of justified war - M. Neu, 2013-12-01Article | Further

Just the just death of just war - Michael NeuWebpage | Further

Ethics, killing and war - Richard Norman, 1995Book | Further | Final chapter 'Having no choice'

Having no choiceWebpage | Further

The morality of war - Brian Orend, 2013Book | Further

The ethics of war: classic and contemporary readings - Gregory M. Reichberg, Henrik Syse,Endre Begby, 2006

Book | Further | Particularly James Turner Johnson, ‘Contemporary Just War’.

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War and self-defense - David Rodin, 2002Book | Further

Self defense, pacifism and the possibility of killing - Cheyney RyanArticle | Further

On the ethics of war and terrorism - Uwe Steinhoff, 2007Book | Further

On the ethics of war and terrorism - Uwe Steinhoff, 2007Book | Further

Just war tradition and the restraint of war: a moral and historical inquiry - James TurnerJohnson, c1981

Book | Further

The Melian dialogue - ThucydidesWebpage | Further

Arguing about war - Michael Walzer, 2004Book | Further

Self-Defence and Forcing the Choice Between Lives - Seumas Miller, 1992Article | Further

Area Bombing, Terrorism and the Death of Innocents - Gerry Wallace, 1989Article | Further

Lecture Week 11 (topic 10):“Humanitarian” War and the“Responsibility to Protect” (38 items)

Seminar:

In what circumstances, if any, might a humanitarian intervention be justified; is there aninstance that fits the bill?

Is Western military humanitarianism hypocritical and irredeemably flawed?

Does the West (or whoever) have a "Responsibility to Protect"?

 

Case study for Seminar Discussion:

Please apply this week's material to the following two cases: Rwanda (where anintervention didn't happen but, according to many, ought to have happened) and Libya(where there was a "humanitarian" war). Be well-informed and ready to speak about thesecases in the seminar.

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Key reading (4 items)

Responsibility to Protect or Right to Punish? - Mahmood MamdaniArticle | Key

Responsibility to Peace: A Critique of R2P - Mary Ellen O'ConnellArticle | Key

The Liberal Case for Humanitarian Intervention - Fernando TesonChapter | Key

Humanitarian intervention: ethical, legal, and political dilemmas - J. L. Holzgrefe, Robert O.Keohane, 2003

Book | Key | The Liberal Case for Humanitarian Intervention, pp 93-129

Further reading (33 items)

Humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect: who should intervene? - JamesPattison, 2012

Book | Further

Humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect: who should intervene? - JamesPattison, 2010

Book | Further

Responsibility to protect: the global effort to end mass atrocities - Alex J. Bellamy, 2009Book | Further

Responsibility to protect: the global effort to end mass atrocities - Alex J. Bellamy, 2009Book | Further

Responsibility to Protect: A Defense - Alex J. Bellamy, 2 Oct. 2014Book | Further

Masters of the universe?: NATO's Balkan crusade - Tariq Ali, 2000Book | Further | Callinicos, Alex, ‘The Ideology of Humanitarian Intervention’

Imposing the ‘Liberal Peace’ - David Chandler, 2004-03Article | Further

The new military humanism: lessons from Kosovo - Noam Chomsky, 1999Book | Further

The ethics of armed humanitarian intervention - C.A.J. CoadyWebpage | Further

Critical perspectives on the responsibilty to protect: Interrogating theory and practice -Philip Cunliffe, 2011

Book

Humanity, military humanism and the new moral order - Costas Douzinas, 2003-01

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Article | Further

Human rights and empire: the political philosophy of cosmopolitanism - Costas Douzinas,2007

Book | Further

Human rights and empire: the political philosophy of cosmopolitanism - Costas Douzinas,2007

Book | Further

A Few Words on Mill, Walzer, and Nonintervention - Doyle, Michael W, Winter 2009Article | Further

The responsibility to protect: rhetoric, reality and the future of humanitarian intervention -Aidan Hehir, 2012

Book | Further

Rethinking democracy promotion - Beate JahnArticle | Further

Responsibility to Peace: A Critique of R2P - Mary Ellen O'Connell, 2010-03Article | Further

Humanitarian intervention: moral and philosophical issues - AleksandarJokic, c2003

Book | Further

Lessons of Kosovo: the dangers of humanitarian intervention - AleksandarJokic, Burleigh Taylor Wilkins, c2003

Book | Further

Humanitarian intervention: ethical, legal, and political dilemmas - J. L. Holzgrefe, Robert O.Keohane, 2003

Book | Further

Virtual war: Kosovo and beyond - Michael Ignatieff, 2000Book | Further

Responsibility to protect: cultural perspectives in the global South - Rama Mani, ThomasGeorge Weiss, 2011

Book | Further

Humanitarian intervention: confronting the contradictions - Michael Newman, c2009Book | Further

Humanitarian disintervention - Shmuel Nili, 2011-04Article | Further

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Humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect: who should intervene? - JamesPattison, 2012

Book | Further

Humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect: who should intervene? - JamesPattison, 2010

Book | Further

Humanitarian intervention in contemporary conflict: a reconceptualization - OliverRamsbotham, Tom Woodhouse, 1996

Book | Further

The liberal defence of murder - Richard Seymour, 2012Book | Further

The liberal case for humanitarian intervention - Fernando TesonWebpage | Further

Saving strangers: humanitarian intervention in international society - Nicholas J. Wheeler,2002

Book | Further

Saving strangers: humanitarian intervention in international society - Nicholas J. Wheeler,2002

Book | Further

Invoking humanity: war, law and global order - Danilo Zolo, 2002Book | Further

Victors' justice: from Nuremburg to Baghdad - Daniel ZoloWebpage | Further

Lecture Week 12 (topic 11): War and Terror (39 items)

Seminar:

Is there such a thing as terrorism (and how would it differ from terror)?

Can states be terrorists?

Critically engage with Boukalos', Jackson's and Honderich's arguments, respectively.

Why do people (and states?) resort to terror?

Can terror be justified?

What, if anything, is to be learned from 9/11?

 

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Case Study for Seminar Discussion: Bush vs. Bin Laden

Bush, George W., Speech to a Joint Session of Congress, Sept. 20, 2001, online availableat:

http://middleeast.about.com/od/usmideastpolicy/a/bush-war-on-terror-speech.htm

 

Osama bin Laden, interviewed by Hamid Mir, 9 November 2001, online at

http://www.dawn.com/news/5647/osama-claims-he-has-nukes-if-us-uses-n-arms-it-will-get-same-response

 

 

Key reading (6 items)

The metamorphosis of war - c2012Book | Key | Brecher, Bob, ‘Why There Is No Such Thing as Political Terrorism’,

The Metamorphosis of War - 2012Book | Key | Brecher, Bob, ‘Why There Is No Such Thing as Political Terrorism’

The epistemological crisis of counterterrorism - Richard Jackson, 2015-01-02Article | Key

Our Responsibility and What to Do - Ted HonderichWebpage | Key

After the terror - Ted Honderich, c2003Book | Key | Chapter 5

After the terror - Ted Honderich, 2002Book | Key | Chapter 5

Further reading (32 items)

Philosophical perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - Tomis Kapitan, c1997Book | Further | Ashmore, Robert B., ‘State Terrorism and Its Sponsors’

Class war-on-terror: counterterrorism, accumulation, crisis - Christos Boukalas, 2015-01-02Article | Further

Precarious life: the powers of mourning and violence - Judith Butler, 2004Book | Further | Chapter 1, pp 1-18

The moraility of terrorism - C.A.J. CoadyArticle | Further

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Conjuring up the next attack: the future-orientedness of terror and the counterterroristimagination - Michael C. Frank, 2015-01-02

Article | Further

Implicating empire: globalization and resistance in the 21st century world order - StanleyAronowitz, Heather Gautney, Clyde W. Barrow, c2003

Book | Further | Gautney, Heather, ‘The Globalisation of Violence in the 21st Century:Israel, Palestine, and the War on Terror’,

11 September 2001: war, terror and judgement -BulentGokay, R. B. J. Walker, 2003

Book | Further

What's wrong with terrorism? - Robert E. Goodin, 2006Book | Further

What's wrong with terrorism? - Robert E. Goodin, 2006Book | Further

‘Beyond Good and Evil: A Contribution to the Analysis of the War Against Terrorism’ -Bruno Gulli

Chapter | Further

The new imperialism - David Harvey, 2005Book | Further

The new imperialism - David Harvey, 2003Book | Further

The new imperialism - David Harvey, 2005Book | Further

How terrorism is wrong: morality and political violence - Virginia Held, 2008Book | Further

How terrorism is wrong: morality and political violence - Virginia Held, 2008Book | Further

Writing the war on terrorism: language, politics and counter-terrorism - Richard Jackson,2005

Book | Further | pp 92-120

Terrorism: a critical introduction - Richard Jackson, 2011Book | Further

Terrorism: a philosophical investigation - Igor Primoratz, 2013Book | Further

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Terrorism - Primoratz, IgorArticle | Further

The morality of terrorism - Igor PrimoratzArticle | Further

What is terrorism? - Igor Primoratz, 1990Article | Further

On Primoratz's definition of terrorism - Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, 1991Article | Further

Primoratz on terrorism - T. Darvis, 1992Article | Further

Beyond September 11: an anthology of dissent - Phil Scraton, 2002Book | Further

Contemporary debates on terrorism - Richard Jackson, Samuel J. Sinclair, 2012Book | Further

Contemporary debates on terrorism - Richard Jackson, Samuel J. Sinclair, 2012Book | Further

Is terrorism morally distinctive? - Samuel SchefflerArticle | Further

On the ethics of war and terrorism - Uwe Steinhoff, 2007Book | Further | Chapter 5

On the ethics of war and terrorism - Uwe Steinhoff, 2007Book | Further | Chapter 5

Discourses and practices of terrorism: interrogating terror - Robert Brecher, MarkDevenney, Aaron Winter, c2010

Book | Further | Widdows, Heather, ‘Rediscovering the Individual in the “War on Terror”:a Virtue and Liberal Approach. pp 5-20

Discourses and practices of terrorism: interrogating terror - Robert Brecher, MarkDevenney, Aaron Winter, Dawsonera, c2010

Book | Further | Widdows, Heather, ‘Rediscovering the Individual in the “War on Terror”:a Virtue and Liberal Approach. pp 5-20

The mass psychology of terrorism - Ellen WillisWebpage | Further

Lecture Week 13 (topic 12): Torture (24 items)

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Seminar:

What is torture? Can it be defined?

Is torture really never justified?

Should we, as ethicists, even raise this question?

What, if anything, is wrong with Walzer's account of "dirty hands"?

 

Case Study for Seminar Discussion: Is it sometimes right for politicians to get dirty hands?

Walzer, Michael, 'Political Action: The Problem of Dirty Hands', Philosophy and PublicAffairs, Vol. 2, No. 2 (1970), pp. 160–180. http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2265139.pdf

Key reading (3 items)

The fantasy of the ticking time bomb scenario - Bob BrecherChapter | Key

TortureChapter | Key | Michael Neu will distribute copies, as this will not appear before 2017.

Torture: The Case for Dirty Harry and Against Alan Dershowitz - Uwe SteinhoffArticle | Key

Further reading (20 items)

Terrorism and Torture - Fritz Allhoff, 2003Article | Further

Terrorism, ticking time-bombs, and torture: a philosophical analysis - Fritz Allhoff, 2012],©2012

Book | Further

Torture, terrorism and the state: a refutation of the ticking-bomb argument - VittorioBuffacchi, Jean Maria Arrigo

Article | Further

Torture and just war - Darrell ColeArticle | Further

Why Terrorism Works: Understanding the Threat, Responding to the ChallengeWebpage | Further | Chapter 4

Why terrorism works: understanding the threat, responding to the challenge - Alan M.Dershowitz, 2002

Book | Further | Chapter 4

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Is There a Torturous Road to Justice? - Alan M. DershowitzWebpage | Further

The prohibition of torture in exceptional circumstances - Michelle Farrell, 2013Book | Further

Why not torture terrorists?: moral, practical, and legal aspects of the 'ticking bomb'justification for torture - Yuval Ginbar, 2009

Book | Further

Torture: a collection - Sanford Levinson, 2004Book | Further

Torture: a collection - Sanford Levinson, 2004Book | Further

Liberalism and the unpleasant question of torture - David LubanArticle | Further

Torture and democracy - Darius M. Rejali, 2009Book | Further

Torture and democracy - Darius M. Rejali, 2009Book | Further

Torture: the case for Dirtty Harry and against Alan Dershowitz - Uwe SteinhoffArticle | Further

Defusing the Ticking Social Bomb ArgumentWebpage | Further

The logic of torture: A critical examination - Tindale, Christopher W, Fall 1996Article | Further

Tragic Choices - Christopher W. Tindale, 2005Article | Further

Understanding torture - Jeremy Wisnewski, c2010Book | Further

The ethics of torture - Jeremy Wisnewski, R. D. Emerick, c2009Book | Further

Week 14 (topic 13): Staff Presentations and War Terror DemocracyWorkshop (1 items)

Lecture: Staff Presentations

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Workshop: Student Presentations over two sessions: What have I learned on this course? 

 

Tutors: Andy Knott and Michael Neu

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