Just War and Ordered Liberty

Abstract

When is war just? What does justice require? If we lack a commonly-accepted understanding of justice – and thus of just war – what answers can we find in the intellectual history of just war? Miller argues that just war thinking should be understood as unfolding in three traditions: the Augustinian, the Westphalian, and the Liberal, each resting on distinct understandings of natural law, justice, and sovereignty. The central ideas of the Augustinian tradition (sovereignty as responsibility for the common good) can and should be recovered and worked into the Liberal tradition, for which human rights serves the same function. In this reconstructed Augustinian Liberal vision, the violent disruption of ordered liberty is the injury in response to which force may be used and war may be justly waged. Justice requires the vindication and restoration of ordered liberty in, through, and after warfare.

Organizational Wars as an Instrument of Pressure in International Relations

“…It is relevant to mention such well-known researchers, politicians, historians and theorists of the problems of war and peace as Z. Brzezinski, A. Bogdanov, L. Hart, G. Filimonov, V. Gorbulin, O. Dzoban, G. Kissinger, S. Kurginyan, V. Mandragelya, S. Mann, J. Nye, G. Pocheptsov, M. Senchenko, V. Serebryannikov, V. Slipchenko, V. Smolyanyuk, A. Toffler, M. Trebin, S. Tyushkevich, S. Huntington, V. Tsyganov and so on. The works of these researchers, devoted to the problems of geopolitics, the essence, and causes of wars, information, and psychological confrontation, are quite thorough and contain a lot of factual material [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. At the same time, it should be emphasized that specific studies on the essence and content of modern wars hereinafter called organizational wars are not enough in the scientific literature.…”