Just peace
Subtitle: how wars should end
By: Mona Fixdal
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780230600348
Subjects: Moral and ethical aspects; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / General; Peace-building; Peace; Strategy; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General; Case studies; Politics and war; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory; Political aspects; War
Description: "How should wars end? What outcomes are morally acceptable, and what ways of making peace should participants and observers find distasteful? Drawing on many of the wars and peaces of recent decades--wars whose muddled conduct and courses have already reshaped the political theory of warfare--this book offers a persuasive new perspective on postwar justice. It argues that wars should end in "a better state of peace," a peace stabler and more just than the one before the war began. It asks: When should a war of secession end in the founding of a new country? What is a right outcome to a war fought for territory? And what kinds of political institutions can both protect vital political rights and nourish stability once the fighting ends? This lucid and groundbreaking book explores the outer limits of the idea that it is worth paying almost any price for peace"--