Issue No. 5, January 2016

THE JUST WAR NEWSLETTER

Issue No. 5 January 2016

CONTENTS

1. Introduction

2. Conferences and Events

3. Recent Publications

4. Call for Papers

5. Academic Programs 

6. Internet Resources  

1. INTRODUCTION

The Just War Newsletter is an electronic publication for announcements and new developments for researchers and practitioners interested in the doctrine of just war. Written and published by Michael Kocsis, it is meant to serve anyone working in academia, the public service, non-governmental organizations, and the military.

If you wish to be added to the mailing list, contact us at msk3@queensu.ca Back-issues are posted on the WWW at: http://thejustwarnewsletter.blogspot.ca/

2. CONFERENCES AND EVENTS

The 9^th Annual Pan-European Conference on International Relations was about “The Worlds of Violence.” The event took place in Giardini Naxos (Sicily, Italy) from Sept. 23-26^th 2015. Info is still available on the conference website: http://www.paneuropeanconference.org/2015/

A conference on “The Future of Just War: Theoretical and Practical Challenges” was held at the United States Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey (California) Oct. 7-9^th, 2015. Its aim was to explore issues in the ethics of war, just war theory, and the moral implications of the future and changing nature of warfare. Conference info is still posted here: https://jwtconference.wordpress.com/

An international conference on “The Theory of Just War: Behind the Jurisprudential Defense of (Abstaining from) Military Action” was held on October 13^th and 14^th 2015 at Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. Michael Walzer was the Keynote Speaker. An overview of the event is posted on the following website: http://www.saevientibus2015.pl/

The International Society for Military Ethics (ISME) is holding its 2016 Annual Conference on “Women Serving in the Armed Forces: Shaping Modern Values and Beyond”. The event will take place from Jan. 29-30^th at Loew’s Annapolis Hotel in Annapolis Maryland, and it will explore the de facto transition of women in the armed forces from non-combat to combat roles. For further information, contact Richard Schoonhoven at the following email address: richard.schoonhoven@usma.edu For a conference program, visit the event website:

http://www.internationalsocietyformilitaryethics.org/2016-conference.html

An conference called “Normative Interventions” is being organized for February 18-19^th at University College London. Organized by Jeffery Howard (UCL), the aim is to consider the possibilities and potential for impact by political philosophers on real-world political events. For further information, contact organizers by email at: jeffrey.howard@ucl.ac.uk  

The International Studies Association (ISA) is holding its 57^th Annual Convention in Atlanta, Georgia from March 16-19^th, 2016. Hosted at the Headquarters Hilton Hotel, the Convention will investigate the topic of “Exploring Peace” throughvalues such as human rights, justice, and equity, which are essential to virtually all conceptions of peace and yet are poorly represented in mainstream academic discussions about military conflict resolution and the right to deploy armed force. Details are posted here: http://www.isanet.org/Conferences/Atlanta-2016

A two-day event called “Just War Theory in an African Context” will take place from April 4-5^th of this year at the University of Johannesburg. Organized by Thaddeus Metz, the objective is to explore traditional just war categories and arguments through the lens of characteristically “sub-Saharan” values and norms. Further information is posted on this PhilEvents conference webpage: http://philevents.org/event/show/18335

The Third Annual Conference on the Ethics of War, a collaboration between the United States Military Academy and Villanova University, will be hosted at Villanova from April 8-9^th, 2016. Distinguished speakers at the event will include Claire Finkelstein, Mark Juergensmeyer, Francis Kamm and Dominic Tierney. For further details, contact Mark Wilson at the following email address: mark.wilson@villanova.edu or watch for updates on this website: http://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/artsci/ethics/conference.html

The British Branch section of the International Law Association (ILA) will host its spring 2016 conference on the theme of “Non-State Actors and Changing Relations in International Law”. The event will take place at the Lancaster House Hotel near Lancaster University from April 8-9^th.  The conference will examine how non-state actors (individual citizens, minorities, indigenous groups, NGOs, businesses, international organizations) raise issues and create particular relationships in international law. Those interested in presenting papers should send abstracts of under 500w to j.summers@lancaster.ac.uk prior to January 31^st. Details are posted on the Lancaster Law School website:

http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/law/news-and-events/news/2736

The 24^th World Conference of Political Science (organized by the International Political Science Association) will explore the topic of “Everyday Humanitarianism: Ethics, Affects and Practices.” Organized by Lilie Chouliaraki (LSE) and Lisa Ann Richey (Roskilde University, Denmark) and hosted at the London School of Economics (LSE) from April 14-16^th 2016, the event will include Keynote Addresses by Craig Calhoun and Miriam Ticktin. For full details, visit the conference website: http://www.ipsa.org/news/event/everyday-humanitarianism-ethics-affects-and-practices#.Vhkz0rjxkbE.twitter

The European Society of International Law will hold its 12^th Annual Conference this year in Riga (Latvia) from Sept. 8-10^th, 2016. The theme will be “How International Law Works in Times of Crisis”, and the conference will consider topics such as new forms of armed conflict, the European human rights architecture, minority rights, human security, and the challenges of illiberal states. Those interested in submitting a presentation should consult the following Conference website: http://www.esil-sedi.eu/node/1060 or download this PDF version of the call for papers: http://www.esil-sedi.eu/sites/default/files/RGSL_ESIL_Call_for_Papers_2016.pdf . The deadline for submissions is January 31^st.       

3. RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Books (CDN$)

Barela, Steven J. (ed) (2015) Legitimacy and Drones: Investigating the Legality, Morality and Efficacy of UVACs (Ashgate) $163.73

Bentwich, Norman (2015) The Religious Foundations of Internationalism: A Study of International Relations Through the Ages (Routledge) $214.27

Bianchi, Andrea, Daniel Peat et.al. (eds) (2015) Interpretation in International Law (Oxford UP) $147.00 

Biggar, Nigel (2014) In Defense of War (Oxford UP Reprint Edition) $39.95

Bjorge, Eirik (2014) The Evolutionary Interpretation of Treaties (Oxford UP) $126.00 

Boaks, Jacqueline and Michael P. Levine (eds) (2015) Leadership and Ethics (Bloomsbury Academic) $145.95

Bryant, Michael (2015) A World History of War Crimes: From Antiquity to the Present (Bloomsbury Academic) $150.00 

Calhoun, Laurie (2015) We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age (Zed Books) $31.95

Cavarero, Adriana, Angelo Scola et.al. (2015) Thou Shalt Not Kill: A Political and Theological Dialogue (Fordham UP) $103.83 

Clapham, Andrew and Paola Gaeta (eds) (2015) The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Armed Conflict (Oxford UP) $84.00

Collins, Victoria E. (2015) State Crime, Women and Gender (Routledge) $200.45

Donelan, Michael (ed) (2015) The Reason of States: A Study of International Political Theory (Routledge) $193.54

Draper, Kai (2015) War and Individual Rights: The Foundations of Just War Theory (Oxford UP) $71.50

Eckert, Amy E. (2016) Outsourcing War: The Just War Tradition in the Age of Military Privatization (Cornell UP) $39.95

Escriba-Folch, Abel and Joseph Wright (2015) Foreign Pressure and the Politics of Autocratic Survival (Oxford UP) $115.50

Fassbender, Bardo, Anne Peters et.al. (eds) (2014) The Oxford Handbook of the History of Internaitonal Law (Oxford UP) $136.36

Finlay, Christopher J. (2015) Terrorism and the Right to Resist: A Theory of Just Revolutionary War (Cambridge UP) $114.95

Fisher, David (2012) Morality and War: Can War be Just in the Twenty-First Century? (Oxford UP) $35.95 

Fleck, Dieter (2014) The Handbook of International Humanitarian Law (Oxford UP) $94.50

Gentry, Caron E. and Laura Sjoberg (2015) Beyond Mothers, Monsters, Whores: Thinking about Women’s Violence in Global Politics (Zed Books) $35.95

Goodin, Robert and James S. Fishkin (2015) Political Theory without Borders (Wiley-Blackwell) $109.95

Gray, Peter (2015) Air Warfare: History, Theory and Practice (Bloomsbury Academic) $145.95

Guth, Karen (2015) Christian Ethics at the Boundary: Feminism and Theologies of Public Life (Fortress Press) $50.00

Harris, Shane (2015) @War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex (Eamon Dolan) $18.64

Hedges, Chris (2014) War is a Force that Gives us Meaning (PublicAffairs/First Trade) $16.46

Hensel, Howard M. (ed) (2015) The Legitimate Use of Military Force: The Just War Tradition and the Customary Law of Armed Conflict (Ashgate) $64.47

Hicks, Robert Michael (2016) Few Call it War: Religious Terrorism; Then and Now (Morgan James Publishing) $26.07  

Hulas, Maciej and Stanislaw Fel (eds) (2015) Intricacies of Patriotism (Peter Lang) $92.65

Kastner, Philipp (2015) Legal Normativity in the Resolution of Internal Armed Conflict (Cambridge UP) $114.95

Keen, Maurice (2015) The Laws of War in the Late Middle Ages (Routledge) $206.82 

Klose, Fabian (ed) (2015) The Emergence of Hmanitarian Intervention: Ideas and Practice from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (Cambridge UP) $137.95  

Kutz, Christopher (2016) On War and Democracy (Princeton UP) $49.95

Laoutides, Costas (2015) Self-Determination and Collective Responsibility in the Age of Secessionist Struggle (Ashgate) $165.00 

Lomasky, Loren and Fernando Tesón (2015) Justice at a Distance: Extending Freedom Globally (Cambridge UP) $114.95

MacNair, Rachel M. (2015) Religions and Nonviolence: The Rise of Effective Advocacy for Peace (Praeger) $75.95

May, Larry (2015) Contingent Pacifism: Revisiting Just War Theory (Cambridge UP) $114.95

Menon, Rajan (2016) The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention (Oxford UP) $39.12

Neff, Stephen C. (2014) Justice among Nations: A History of International Law (Harvard UP) $56.68

Nolan, Cathal J. (ed) (2015) Ethics and Statecraft: The Moral Dimension of International Affairs [Third Edition] (Praeger) $63.86 

O’Callaghan, Ronan (2015) Walzer, Just War and Iraq: Ethics as Response (Routledge) $202.94

Pitman, George R. (2015) Why War? An Inquiry into the Genetic and Social Foundations of Human Warfare (Dog Ear Publishing) $21.04

Rengger, Nick (2016) The Anti-Pelagian Imagination in Political Theory and International Relations: Dealing in Darkness (Routledge) $59.06

Richards, Anthony (2015) Conceptualizing Terrorism (Oxford UP) $105.00

Schabas, William (2014) Unimaginable Atrocities: Justice, Politics and Rights at the War Crimes Tribunals (Oxford UP) $27.95

Swift, Christopher, Mark Cobb et.al. (eds) (2015) A Handbook of Chaplaincy Studies: Understanding Spiritual Care in Public Places (Ashgate) $62.14 

Thakur, Ramesh and William Maley (eds) (2015) Theorising the Responsibility to Protect (Cambridge UP) $ 114.95

Thirlway, Hugh (2014) The Sources of International Law (Oxford UP) $157.44

Turner, Mandy and Florian Kuhn (eds) (2015) The Politics of International Intervention: The Tyranny of Peace (Routledge) $214.27

Vanderhaar, Gerard (2015) Personal Nonviolence: A Practical Spirituality for Peacemakers (Wipf & Stock) $23.92

Weller, Marc (ed) (2015) The Oxford Handbook of the Use of Force in International Law (Oxford UP) $344.79

Witt, John Fabian (2013) Lincoln’s Code: The Laws of War in American History (Free Press) $21.00

Journal Special Issues

The current issue of the Journal of Military Ethics is on the theme of “The Just Soldier: Who is It?” (Vol. 14, Issue 3-4, 2015). Edited by Henrik Syse and Martin L. Cook, the issue contains articles by Jesse Kirkpatrick, Robert Sparrow, and Michelle Schut & René Moelker. The same issue contains a Book Symposium on Michael Gross’s recent book “The Ethics of Insurgency: A Brief Overview”.   

The winter 2015 issue of Ethics and International Affairs (Vol. 29, Issue 4) contains a Roundtable on the topic of “Change and Continuity in Global Governance” and a feature article entitled “The Ethics of Arming Rebels”, written by James Pattison.   

4. CALL FOR PAPERS

The Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace welcomes submissions for its 3^rd Annual Graduate Reading Retreat, which will take place this year in Venice (Italy). As many as six doctoral students working on the ethics of war and peace will be selected to present their work in Venice from Sept. 10-11, 2016. This year’s event has been broadened to include work on collective responsibility, causation, authority, moral responsibility, or other areas of philosophy touching on the ethics of war and peace. Those interested in participating should email their essay to Helen Frowe, Director of the Stockhom Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace, via email (helen.frowe@philosophy.su.se) prior to May 1^st.  Essays should be under 10000w (excluding references) and should be prepared for blind review. Submitted essays should be unpublished and not under review by the time of the retreat; should include the author’s name, email address and affiliation; and should be accompanied by a one-page CV and a letter from the student’s supervisor or department head confirming graduate student registration.

5. ACADEMIC PROGRAMS  

A Graduate Cource on the “Ethics and Technologies of War” is being offered by the National Security College at Australian National University (ANU). This course examines ethical norms on the use of armed force for political purposes and it includes a particular focus on the relationship between those norms and military technologies. It’s primary focus is Walzer’s Just and Unjust Wars. For full details, visit the ANU website: http://programsandcourses.anu.edu.au/course/NSPO8014  

6. INTERNET RESOURCES

The website of the Aspen Ideas Festival now includes a streamed lecture by Yale University Law Professor Stephen L. Carter, entitled “The Tragedy of Just War Theory”. Combining examples of armed conflict from history with contemporary events, Carter discusses; “How our distorted ethics of warfare makes it easy to fight wars which we should not, and difficult to fight wars that we should?”  

http://www.aspenideas.org/session/tragedy-just-war-theory

Now available on CBC Radio’s renowned Ideas podcast website is an extensive audio documentary about the just war tradition entitled “Just War Theory: So what?” The documentary was produced by Frank Faulk and is based on interviews with just war theorists such as Brian Orend and Stephanie Belanger.

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/just-war-theory-so-what-1.2914198   

The Washington Post’s website recently published a section called “Just War Theory: A Primer”. Written by Christine Emba, the section links to a host of opinion pieces and interviews touching on issues of justice and war. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2015/11/30/just-war-theory-a-primer/

The following document is available on the website called “Catholic Answers”, which provides a series of Biblical references and Old Testament quotations purported to be the ancient Christian roots of the just war tradition. 

http://www.catholic.com/documents/just-war-doctrine

Announcements

To subscribe, or to use this newsletter to announce a new publication, research project, call for papers, conference, workshop, or other event, simply forward the relevant details to the following email address: msk3@queensu.ca

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Issue No. 4, May 2015

CONTENTS

1. Introduction
2. Conferences and Events
3. Recent Publications
4. Call for Papers
 5. Academic Programs
 6. Internet Resources


1. INTRODUCTION 

The Just War Newsletter is an electronic publication containing announcements and new developments for researchers and practitioners interested in the ethics of war. Written and published by Michael Kocsis, it is designed for those who work in academia, the public service, non-governmental organizations, and the military. If you wish to be added to the mailing list, contact us at msk3@queensu.ca Back-issues are posted on the WWW at: http://thejustwarnewsletter.blogspot.ca/


2. CONFERENCES AND EVENTS 

A two-day workshop on Shared Actions and Collective Responsibilities was held at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) from April 23-24th. The event looked at several philosophical questions related to the concept of “collective responsibility” and was organized by Frank Hindricks (Groningen). The Faculty of Law at the University of Ljubljana held its second international interdisciplinary conference on “Responsibility to Protect in Theory and Practice.” The conference took place in Ljubljana, Slovenia on April 23 - 24, 2015. Event information is found on the following website: http://www.r2pconference.com/

An event called “Political Theory at the Margins” will take place as the Fourth Oxford Graduate Political Theory Conference. Held at the University of Oxford on May 8th, the event will include keynote presentations by Humeira Iqtidar (King’s College London) and Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman (University College London). The event’s organizers are Udit Bhatia and Bruno Leipold. Further information can be found at the following website: http://isih.history.ox.ac.uk/?p=4449

A conference on “Reconciliation and Justice” is being held from May 20-22nd by the Forum for Intercultural Philosophy at the Institute for Science and Art, the Viennese Society for Intercultural Philosophy, the Institute of Philosophy (Vienna) and the Forum Scientiarum (Tübingen). The event will take place in Vienna and will explore reconciliation from a philosophical perspective, particularly in connection with the notion of justice. The organisers include Anke Graneß (Vienna), Bertold Bernreuter (NAU of Mexico) and Niels Weidtmann (Tübingen). For more information, visit the conference website: http://ev.polylog.org/colloquium-en.htm

A series of four public lectures is being held in Leuven (Belgium) on the topic “Sovereignty Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow?”. February and March saw lectures delivered by Martin Loughlin (LSE) and Andreas Føllesdal (Oslo). On April 30, Stephen Tierney (Edinburgh) will lecture on “Joining from the Inside? Sub-state Nations, the European Union and the Challenge of Sovereignty Referendums”. On May 21, Pavlos Eleftheriadis (Oxford) will speak on “The Deliberative Constitution: Sovereignty and its Alternatives”. The lectures are held in “Kleine Aula”, Maria-Theresiacollege, Sint-Michielsstraat 6, 3000 Leuven and they offer opportunities for questions and discussion. Registration for each lecture is mandatory. For details, go to: http://www.law.kuleuven.be/home/onderzoek/nieuws-onderzoek/sovereignty For other questions, contact: Raf Geenens (raf.geenens@hiw.kuleuven.be) at the University of Leuven.

A conference on “Human Rights and Justice” will take place at The Hague Institute for Global Justice from June 8-10, 2015. The conference will take place immediately ahead of the annual meeting of the Academic Council on the United Nations System (June 11-13), also in The Hague. This joint event will gather researchers and policymakers from academia, think tanks, IOs and NGOs to deal with various aspects of justice and human rights. Follow the Conference website for information on how to submit: http://global-human-rights.org/HRJ.html A conference on “Area Studies and International Relations: Intersecting Dimensions” will be held at the Middle East Technical University from June 17-19th. The conference will be held at the Department of International Relations, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences B-Building, of Middle East Technical University, Ankara (Turkey). For details, visit the conference website: http://ir.metu.edu.tr/area-studies-and-ir-conference2015

A conference on “Globalisation and Global Justice” will be held as part of Societas Ethica's 52nd Annual Conference in Linköping, Sweden from August 20th-23rd, 2015. Keynote speakers will include Jan Aart Scholte (University of Warwick), Kok-Chor Tan (University of Pennsylvania), Lea Ypi (London School of Economics) and William Schweiker (University of Chicago). The conference will feature panels on inter-continental perspectives about global ethics, rectificatory global justice, and the ethics of international migration. Details can be found on the Societas Ethicas website at the following address: http://www.societasethica.info/annual-conference-2015?l=en

The 6th Annual Conference of the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict will be on “Legitimate Authority and Political Violence”. Hosted by the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace, the event will take place at Långholmen Hotel (Stockholm) from August 28-29th, 2015. Speakers will include Kimberley Brownlee (Warwick) Thomas Christiano (Arizona) Helen Frowe (Stockholm) Jonathan Parry (Stockholm) Massimo Renzo (King’s College London) David Rodin (Oxford and EUI) Malcolm Thorburn (Toronto) Daniel Viehoff (Sheffield). Registration is free and open to all, and includes refreshments, lunch and a conference dinner. Details are available on the Stockholm Centre’s website: http://www.stockholmcentre.org/elac-conference-2015-legitimate-authority-and-political-violence.html Other questions can be sent to: jonathan.parry@philosophy.su.se

A conference on “The Future of Just War: Theoretical and Practical Challenges” is being organized from October 7-9, in Monterey, California. The event will be hosted by the Defense Analysis Department at the Naval Postgraduate School, and the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace, and the National Science Foundation. Keynote Speakers will include Jeff McMahan, Scott Sagan, Adil Haque, and Helen Frowe. Those interested in presenting should submit an extended abstract of 500-800W for peer review on any topic related to the ethics of war, just war theory, the moral implications of the future and changing nature of warfare. Preference will be given to papers that consider the ethical implications of new, emerging, and future military technology and the resulting changing nature of warfare. The deadline for submissions is May 30th. Final papers should be suitable for a 35min presentation. Submit abstracts to: JWTConference@gmail.com and for more information visit the conference website: https://jwtconference.wordpress.com/.

Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University and Łazarski Univesity in Warsaw (Poland) are organizing a major event in Warsaw from October 13-14th on “The Theory of Just War: Behind the Jurisprudential Defense of (Abstaining from) Military Action”. The conference will commemorate the 600th Anniversary of Paul Vladimiri’s Corpus Diplomaticum. Its keynote speaker will be Michael Walzer (Princeton). Proposals for paper presentations are invited, and those interested should submit abstracts (max 300W) by May 31st to: saevientibus2015@uksw.edu.pl The event is being organized by Adam Cebula, Przemysław Gawron and Magdalena Płotka.


3. RECENT PUBLICATIONS 

Books (US$)

Barten, Ulrike (2015) Minorities, Minority Rights and Internal Self-Determination (Springer) $107.93

Battistella, Graziano (ed) (2014) Global and Asian Perspectives on International Migration (Springer) $119.11

Calder, Gideon, Magali Bessone, and Federico Zuolo (eds) (2014) How Groups Matter: Challenges of Toleration in Pluralistic Societies (Routledge) $114.27

 Capizzi, Joseph E. (2015) Politics, Justice and War: Christian Governance and the Ethics of Warfare (Oxford UP) $76.50

Clark, Ian (2015) Waging War: A New Philosophical Introduction (Oxford UP) $35.00

Coker, Christopher (2014) Men at War: What Fiction Tells Us about Conflict, from the Iliad to Catch-22 (C. Hurst & Co.) $25.83

Coren, Michael (2015) Hatred: Islam’s War on Christianity (Signal Press) $13.45

Cornell, Svante E. (2015) The Guns of August 2008: Russia’s War on Georgia (Taylor and Francis) $41.61

Coyote, Charles Edmund (2013) Iraq War 2003: What Really Happened Behind the Scenes (Coyote Report) $11.95

Douzinas, Costas and Conor Gearty (2014) Meanings of Rights: The Philosophy and Social Theory of Human Rights (Cambridge UP) $33.29

Draper, Kai (2015) War and Individual Rights: The Foundations of Just War Theory (Oxford UP) $65.00

Ennaji, Moha (2014) Multiculturalism and Democracy in North Africa (Routledge) $128.60

 Farmelo, Graham (2014) Churchill’s Bomb: A Hidden History of Britain’s Nuclear Weapons Programme (Faber & Faber) $19.25

Finkel, David (2013) Thank You for Your Service (Scribe Publications) $12.97 Finlay, Christopher J. (2015) Terrorism and the Right to Resist: A Theory of Just Revolutionary War (Cambridge UP) $99.99

Friedman, Andrea (2014) Citizenship in Cold War America: The National Security State and the Possibilities of Dissent (University of Massachusetts Press) $24.95

Frowe, Helen (2015) The Ethics of War and Peace: An Introduction 2E (Routledge) $39.95

Goodwin, Robert (2015) Spain: The Centre of the World 1519-1682 (Bloomsbury Press) $23.49

Hellbeck, Jochen (2015) Stalingrad: The City that Defeated the Third Reich. Trans. Christopher Tauchen (PublicAffairs) $22.22

Heraclides, Alexis and Ada Dialla (2015) Humanitarian Intervention in the Long Nineteenth Century: Setting the Precedent (Manchester UP) $110.00

Hopgood, Stephen (2013) The Endtimes of Human Rights (Cornell UP) $18.51

Kaltmeier, Olaf et al (eds) (2014) The New Dynamics of Identity Politics in the Americas: Multiculturalism and Beyond (Routledge) $125.87

Koddenbrock, Kai (2015) The Practice of Humanitarian Intervention: Aid Workers, Agencies and Institutions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Routledge Studies in Intervention and Statebuilding) $145.00

Lango, John (2015) The Ethics of Armed Conflict: A Cosmopolitan Just War Theory (Edinburgh UP) $33.20

Lenzerini, Federico (2014) The Culturalization of Human Rights Law (Oxford UP) $89.53

Levine, Michael, William Taylor et al (eds) (2015) The Katrina Effect: On the Nature of Catastrophe (Bloomsbury Academic) $106.40

Malik, Ahmed Ijaz (2015) US Foreign Policy and the Gulf Wars: Decision-Making and International Relations (I.B. Tauris) $99.00

May, Larry (2015) Contingent Pacifism: Revisiting Just War Theory (Cambridge UP) $99.99

McFate, Sean (2015) The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean for the World Order (Oxford UP) $27.85

Mills, Kurt (2015) International Responses to Mass Atrocities in Africa: Responsibility to Protect, Prosecute and Palliate (University of Pennsylvania Press) $69.95

Neiberg, Michael (2015) Potsdam: The End of WWII and the Remaking of Europe (Basic Books) $21.77

Oreskes, Naomi and Erik M. Conway (2014) The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future (Columbia UP) $8.50

Parnell, Sean and John R. Bruning (2015) Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan (Harper Collins) $11.32

Pedersen, Susan (2015) The Guardians: The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire (Oxford UP) $21.10

Plokhy, Serhii (2014) The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union (Oneworld Publications) $11.03

Pike, Francis (2015) Hirohito’s War: The Pacific War, 1941-1945 (Bloomsbury Academic) $31.21

Rengger, Nick (2015) The Anti-Pelagian Imagination in Political Theory and International Relations: Dealing in Darkness (Routledge) $41.43

Requejo, Ferran and Camil Ungureanu (eds) (2014) Democracy, Law and Religious Pluralism in Europe: Secularism and Post-Secularism (Routlege) $112.29

Rodogno, Davide (2015) Against Massacre: Humanitarian Interventions in the Ottoman Empire, 1815-1914 (Princeton UP) $29.95

Rovisco, Maria and Sebastian Kim (eds) (2014) Cosmopolitanism, Religion and the Public Sphere (Routledge) $111.76

Ryngaert, Cedric (2015) Jurisdiction in International Law (Oxford UP) $109.25

 Scott, James M. (2015) Target Tokyo: Jimmy Doolittle and the Raid that Avenged Pearl Harbour (Norton & Co.) $23.37

Shaw, William H. (2015) Utilitarianism and the Ethics of War (Routledge) $128.99

Slim, Hugo (2015) Humanitarian Ethics: A Guide to the Morality of Aid in War and Disaster (Oxford UP) $29.95

Stevenson, Garth (2014) Building Nations from Diversity: Canadian and American Experience Compared (McGill-Queen's UP) $30.20

Tannsjo, Torbjorn (2015) Taking Life: Three Theories on the Ethics of Killing (Oxford UP) $21.77

Thistlethwaite, Susan Brooks (2015) A Theology of Women’s Bodies as Battlefield: Just War, Just Peace, and the Global War on Women (Palgrave Macmillan) $32.47

Toll, Ian W. (2015) The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944 (Norton & Co.) $24.92

Veltman, Andrea, and Mark Piper (eds) (2014) Autonomy, Oppression, and Gender (Studies in Feminist Philosophy) (Oxford UP) $29.87

Wukovits, John (2015) Hell from the Heavens: The Epic Story of the USS Laffey and WWII’s Greatest Kamikaze Attack (De Capo Press) $17.76


Journal Special Issues 

Nationalities Papers recently published a Special Issue on “Minority Politics and the Territoriality Principle in Europe (Vol. 42, No. 3, 2014). An introductory article by Magdalena Máracz Dembinska, László,Tonk, and Márton is followed by contributions from Günther Pallaver, István Csernicskó & Viktória Ferenc, István Gergő Székely & István Horváth, and Boyka M. Stefanova.


4. CALL FOR PAPERS 

Les Ateliers de l’Ethique/The Ethics Forum invite essay proposals for a special issue on “Political Philosophy Below and Beyond the State”. The issue will focus on developments in legal theory which are challenging the role of the nation-state. Issues to be discussed will include identity in the demos, cosmopolitanism, the scope of obligations of justice, and the structure of political institutions within and without the modern state. Papers should be submitted to two Special Issue Guest Editors: Yann Allard-Tremblay (yann.allard-tremblay@mail.mcgill.ca) and Benoit Morissette (benoit.morissette@umontreal.ca), should be 6000-12000W, and should follow the formatting instructions available at this address: http://www.lecre.umontreal.ca/categorie/ateliers_ethique_ethics_forum/


5. ACADEMIC PROGRAMS 

The Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) and the Norwegian Institute on International Affairs (NUPI) will host a Summer School in Oslo from October 26-November 1st at NUPI. The Council is a scholarly association of academics and practitioners teaching, researching and writing about the United Nations, international organization(s) and contemporary issues of global governance. The theme of the 2015 workshop is “The Evolution of UN Peace Operations: Contemporary Challenges and Requirements”. Details on the application process can be found on the following website: http://acuns.org/sw15/ 6. INTERNET RESOURCES A blog connected to the periodical The New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology and Society hosts an ongoing debate on “Killer Robots, International Law, and Just War Theory”. The debate has featured analyses by Michael Schmitt and Jeffrey Thurnher (U.S. Naval War College), Kenneth Anderson (American University), and Matthew Waxman (Columbia), and developed from the U.N.’s 2015 conference on Killer Robots. http://futurisms.thenewatlantis.com/2015/04/killer-robots-international-law-and-just-war-theory.html 





Announcements 
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Issue No. 3, November 2014

CONTENTS

1. Introduction

2. Conferences and Events

3. Recent Publications

4. Call for Papers

5. Academic Programs   

1. INTRODUCTION

The Just War Newsletter is an electronic newsletter for announcements and new developments for researchers and practitioners interested in the ethics of war. Written and published by Michael Kocsis, it is designed for those who work in academia, the public service, non-governmental organizations, and the military. To be added to the mailing list, contact us at msk3@queensu.ca Back-issues are posted on the WWW at: http://thejustwarnewsletter.blogspot.ca/

2. CONFERENCES AND EVENTS

A conference entitleded “EFAK X: Disagreements” was organized in Tartu, Estonia from September 25-27, as the Tenth Annual Estonian Philosophy Conference. Organized by the Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics of the University of Tartu, the Keynote Speaker was Prof. Esa Diaz Leon (University of Manitoba/University of Barcelona). Information is available on this website: http://www.flfi.ut.ee/en/department-philosophy/efak-x-disagreements 

The theme for the recent annual conference of the International Society for Military Ethics (ISME) was “The Ethical Dimensions of Civil War.” The event was held at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, October 12-15, with a keynote address delivered by Kit Wellman called “A Moral Analysis of the US Civil War.” Details and a conference program are posted here:

http://reilly.nd.edu/news-and-events/conferences/isme-conference-2014/

Canada’s Conference of Defence Associations Institute (CDA Institute) hosted its 17^th Annual Graduate Student Symposium on October 16-17 at the Royal Military College of Canada (Kingston, Ontario). Organized on the theme of “Canada’s Security and Defense Interests,” the Symposium brought together Canadian and international graduate students, members of the Department of National Defence and Canadian Armed Forces, for two days of presentations, discussions, professional development and networking.  

A Seminar on the Ethics of War will be held on Monday, December 8^th in Room E339 of Frescati Campus, Stockholm University. This informal seminar will include two of the Stockholm Centre's Affiliated Researchers: Victor Tadros (Warwick), who will speak on “The Persistence of the Right of Return”; and David Rodin (Oxford/CEU) who will speak on “The Reciprocity Theory of Rights.” The seminar is open to all, but those interested in attending should register by emailing Jonathan Parry: jonathan.parry@philosophy.su.se

The Faculty of Law at the University of Ljubljana is organizing its second international interdisciplinary conference on “Responsibility to Protect in Theory and Practice.” The conference will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia on April 23 - 24, 2015, and it will enable scholars in fields of law, political science, the military, and other fields to engage in interdisciplinary academic debate on the concept of Responsibility to Protect (RtoP). Further information can be obtained by sending an email to conference organizers at the following address: R2P@pf.uni-lj.si Event information is posted at the following website: http://www.r2pconference.com/

In International Conference on the “Workings of Democracy: Practices, Norms and Understanding” will take place at the University of Iceland from May 27-29, 2015. The Keynote Speaker will be Simone Chambers (University of Toronto). The conference will attempt to facilitate critical and conceptual analyses of democratic theory and practices, and to bring together perspectives on key issues such as democratic representation, accountability, political participation and institutional venues for deliberation. For further information contact Henry Alexander Henrysson (hah@hi.is) or Vilhjalmur Arnason (vilhjarn@hi.is).

The Hague Institute for Global Justice will host a conference on “Human Rights and Justice” from June 8-10, 2015. Organized by Anji and Kurt Mills, the event is a collaborative effort of the Human Rights Sections of the International Studies Association (ISA), the American Political Science Association (APSA), the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), and the International Political Science Association (IPSA). For full details, visit the following website: http://global-human-rights.org/HRJ.html or send questions to the conference organizers at this email address:

HumanRightsandJustice2015@gmail.com

A Panel entitled “Feeling like a State: Producing Citizens in Theory and Practice” will take place as part of the 2015 meetings of the Canadian political Science Association (CPSA). The panel will attempt to bring approaches to public policy together with political theory to address the production of citizens and practices of citizenship. Abstracts of 250w should be received by October 29, and should be sent to the Conference Organizers at one of the following email addresses:

Jessica L. Merolli (merollj@mcmaster.ca) or Michael N. Di Gregorio (digregmn@mcmaster.ca). 

3. RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Books (US$)

Allen, Joseph L. (2014) War: A Primer for Christians (Texas A&M University Press) $11.66

Axelrod, Alan (2014) Mercenaries: A Guide to Private Armies and Private Military Companies (CQ Press) $142.50

Biggar, Nigel (2014) In Defence of War (Oxford UP) $26.46 

Charles, J. Daryl and David D. Corey (2012) The Just War Tradition: An Introduction (Intercollegiate Studies Institute) $21.78

Coren, Michael (2014) Hatred: Islam's War on Christianity (Signal) $20.48

Cosar Unal, Mustafa (2013) Counterterrorism in Turkey: Policy Choices and Policy Effects toward the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) (Routledge) $50.63

Coster, Patience (2012) The Ethics of War (Franklin Watts Ltd.) $11.01

Fabre, Cécile (2012) Cosmopolitan War (Oxford UP) $31.50 

Frowe, Helen and Gerald Lang (Eds.) (2014) How We Fight: Ethics in War (Oxford UP) $47.11

Gertz, Nolen and Thom Brooks (Eds.) (2014) The Philosophy of War and Exile (Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy) $86.46

Gunn, Giles (2013) Ideas to Die For: The Cosmopolitan Challenge (Global Horizons) $37.44

Kasher, Asa (Ed.) (2014) Ethics of War and Conflict (Routledge) 

Kaurin, Pauline M. (2014) The Warrior, Military Ethics and Contemporary Warfare: Achilles Goes Asymmetrical (Ashgate) $99.70

Ling, L.H.M.  (2014) Imagining World Politics: Sihar & Shenya, A Fable for Our Times (Routledge) $30.22

Lon Weaver, Matthew (Ed.) (2014) Applied Christian Ethics: Foundations, Economic Justice, and Politics (Lexington Books) $90.00 

Lynch, Cecelia (2013) Interpreting International Politics (Routledge) $25.56

Meagher, Robert Emmet (2014) Killing from the Inside Out: Moral Injury and Just War (Cascade Books) Kindle: $8.87

Michael, George (2014) Extremism in America (University Press of Florida) $67.46

Michael, George (2012) Lone Wolf Terror and the Rise of Leaderless Resistance (Vanderbilt University Press) $23.98

O'Meara, Richard Michael (2014) Governing Military Technologies in the 21st Century: Ethics and Operations (Palgrave Pivot) $62.84 

Pattison, James (2014) The Morality of Private War: The Challenge of Private Military and Security Companies (Oxford UP) $82.16

Poole, H. John (2014) Strategic Rifleman: Key to More Moral Warfare (Posterity Press) $11.14

Ryan, Allan A. (2014) Yamashita's Ghost: War Crimes, MacArthur's Justice, and Command Accountability (Kansas University Press) $17.97 

U.S. Army Command and General Staff College (2014) Law, Ethics, and Morality in War During the Battle of Algiers (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) $11.66

Whitt, Jacqueline E. (2014) Bringing God to Men: American Military Chaplains and the Vietnam War (University of North Carolina Press) $27.80

Wilcox, Lt Col Raymond H. (2014) The Ethics Of Bombing Dresden (Pickle Partners Publishing) Kindle: $1.97  

Witt, John Fabian (2013) Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History (Free Press) $12.06

4. CALL FOR PAPERS

Submissions are welcome for a Special Issue of Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism on the topic of “Humanism, Pluralism and Cosmopolitanism.” The deadline for submissions is January 1^st 2015. For further details and questions contact: John Shook, Editor, Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism; American Humanist Association; 1777 T Street, NW, Washington, DC 20009-7125, USA; email: jshook@americanhumanist.orgVisit the journal website to view the contents of past issues and find details about submission: http://www.equinoxpub.com/journals/index.php/EPH

5. ACADEMIC PROGRAMS  

An Intensive Course on the Ethics of War will be hosted by the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace from February 2-6, 2015. Organized by Helen Frowe and Jonathan Parry, the event is aimed at upper-level undergraduates and graduate students. No prior knowledge of just war theory will be assumed, but participants will be expected to prepare with a set of advance readings. The course will be free of charge and open to all interested parties, for either ECTS credits or for general interest. Places will be limited, so potential students should contact organizers via email to: helen.frowe@philosophy.su.se. The course will be taught in English.

A workshop on analytic Just War Theory will take place at Jindal Global University (New Delhi) on February 28^th, 2015. Co-hosted by Jindal Global University, the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace, and the Jack and Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security, the Workshop is intended to be part of a larger project engaging with Indian researchers interested in analytic just war theory. It will be led by Helen Frowe (Director, Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace) and François Tanguay-Renaud (Director, Jack and Mae Nathanson Centre), and key texts of contemporary just war theory will be assigned. Participants will be asked to prepare a brief comment for presentation. Attendance is free, but participants should register in advance with an email to the following address: jwtconference2015@gmail.com. More information can be found at the following website: http://www.stockholmcentre.org/delhi-workshop-on-the-analytic-just-war.html

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