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Distinguishing State from Community: Michael Walzer’s Communitarian ‘View from the Cave’ | Embedded Cosmopolitanism: Duties to Strangers and Enemies in a World of 'Dislocated Communities' | British Academy Scholarship Online | Oxford Academic. Chapter.
Communitarianism: Michael Walzer and international justice; Molly Cochran, Georgia Institute of Technology; Book: Normative Theory in International Relations; Online publication: 22 September 2009; Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511491276.004
- Molly Cochran
- 1999
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- Abstract
- 1 Grounds For Intervention
- 2 Objections
- 3 Beneficence Or Justice?
- 4 Arguments For Regime Change
- 5 The Limits of Protection
Michael Walzer likes to say that for him just war theorizing is not an academic exercise – a philosophical effort to find coherence in a set of ideas and to state that coherence systematically, dispassionately, and in abstraction from policies and decisions. Others may treat just war as a topic in philosophy, but he sees his own contribution to the...
The discussion of humanitarian intervention in Just and Unjust Wars is a landmark. It reclaimed the expression from obscurity and made the topic inescapable in arguments about war. Walzer defines humanitarian intervention as a response to massive human rights violations, and he distinguishes it from other kinds of intervention: intervention to prot...
There are many objections to this understanding of humanitarian intervention, and Walzer responds at one point or another to most of them. One objection, considered in Just and Unjust Wars, is that few interventions are undertaken for humanitarian reasons. He answers that in every case known to him ‘the humanitarian motive is one among several’ but...
It follows, at least on the traditional understanding of humanitarian intervention that Walzer is defending, that its aims are always limited. They are limited to rescuing the victims of massive violence and do not extend to ameliorating other wrongs, certainly not ordinary human rights violations. Nor are interventions justified for the sake of de...
Such reasoning brings us to the venerable ideas of trusteeship (where the intervening power governs) and protectorate (where it merely defends the local government, which it has helped to establish, against internal or external threats). That such arrangements were common in the age of European empire is no argument against reviving them, if the in...
Prevention is just one of the issues that arise as soon as the debate on humanitarian intervention is reframed from a debate about the right of states to intervene to one about the duty of states to protect. Protection is an open-ended concept: one can draw a line between protecting people from violence and protecting them from other harms, but whe...
- Terry Nardin
- 2013
This article presents a reconstruction of Michael Walzer's pluralist theory in Spheres of Justice.It starts by noting that Walzer's main thesis (justice resides in autonomous spheres of social goods, according to principles reflecting each good's social meaning) is too restrictive to clarify his own concern with ‘complex equality’.
Princeton, NJ 08540. Email: walzer@ias.edu. Professor Emeritus of Social Science. As a professor, author, editor, and lecturer, Michael Walzer has addressed a wide variety of topics in political theory and moral philosophy: political obligation, just and unjust war, nationalism and ethnicity, economic justice and the welfare state.
My aims in this chapter are, first, to identify certain salient features of ethical relativism and subject them to criticism, and secondly, to examine Michael Walzer's approach to international justice, bringing out its relativist as well as its universalist features and showing exactly how Walzer goes wrong in partially denying the ...
Michael Laban Walzer [a] (born March 3, 1935) is an American political theorist and public intellectual. A professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey, he is editor emeritus of Dissent, an intellectual magazine that he has been affiliated with since his years as an undergraduate at Brandeis University.
