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The Gamble of WarPossible Worlds

The Gamble of War: Possible Worlds [The dialogue between morality and politics varies in its complexity depending on the period, while their trajectories shift as each of the terms transforms itself. They form a couple; they are also the dual face of a single event. The modalities of the relationship are many and varied. There are at least two, as I have come to realize at the end of these reflections on war. We have, first, the “accountability” approach: institutions are required to give an explanation of behavior that goes back to the more or less distant past (from a few weeks to several centuries) and to justify their decisions, on the basis, mainly, of their collective responsibility. This is a dynamic oriented toward the past. Things are different today. Preventive war is the most “futuristic” of wars. It is based on anticipatory scenarios, requires the use of ever-renewing technologies, and aims to change the world to bring about a better future. Justification, in this case, is a priori justification. Its point of application has shifted. There are clearly pendulum swings between these two postures; the one leads to the other.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2013
ISBN
978-1-349-43727-6
Pages
209 –230
DOI
10.1057/9781137018953_8
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Abstract

[The dialogue between morality and politics varies in its complexity depending on the period, while their trajectories shift as each of the terms transforms itself. They form a couple; they are also the dual face of a single event. The modalities of the relationship are many and varied. There are at least two, as I have come to realize at the end of these reflections on war. We have, first, the “accountability” approach: institutions are required to give an explanation of behavior that goes back to the more or less distant past (from a few weeks to several centuries) and to justify their decisions, on the basis, mainly, of their collective responsibility. This is a dynamic oriented toward the past. Things are different today. Preventive war is the most “futuristic” of wars. It is based on anticipatory scenarios, requires the use of ever-renewing technologies, and aims to change the world to bring about a better future. Justification, in this case, is a priori justification. Its point of application has shifted. There are clearly pendulum swings between these two postures; the one leads to the other.]

Published: Nov 9, 2015

Keywords: United Nations; Preventive Action; National Court; Moral Luck; Universal Jurisdiction

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