CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY DAREN BOWYER JUST WAR DOCTRINE

eserving to a supra-national body the right to authorise the use of force. Whilst
maintaining much of the logic of the earliest just war scholars, this paradigm effectively
rendered the doctrine redundant. The next chapter will argue that the reality of the post
Cold War world, with the ending of the particular conditions created by the superpower
stand-off, has shown the legalist paradigm based on the UN Charter to be inadequate.
Yet, as it will go on to show, there remains a need to justify recourse to war. If the legal
paradigm was been found wanting, a return to first principles must again offer guidance.
1
SIPRI Yearbook 2002 (Oxford: OUP, 2002), p 23-24.
2
H Lauterpacht, British Yearbook of International Law (1952), p382; quoted in G Best, War and Law
Since 1945 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994), frontispiece.
3
L Freedman , ‘The Iraq Crisis’ Kings College Lecture to UK Joint Services Command and Staff
College, 29 Apr 03.
4
See, for example, N Fotion ‘Reactions to War: Pacifism, Realism and Just War Theory’ in A Valls (Ed)
Ethics in International Affairs (Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000), pp15-32.
5
M Wight, International Theory: The Three Traditions (London: Leicester University Press for RIIA,
1996), p7.
6
A J Coates, The Ethics of War (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997), p17.
7
Machiavelli, The Prince (Trans G Bull) (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, Revised Edition 1981), p91.
8
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War (Translated Crawley, R) (London: Orion Publishing Group, 1995),
pp 289 -290.
9 T Hobbes , Leviathan (London: J M Dent & Sons, 1965), pp64-65.
10 Ibid, p87
11 E Dumbauld, The Life and Legal Writings of Hugo Grotius (Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press,
1969), p66
12 H Kissinger, Diplomacy (New York: Touchstone, 1995), p58.
13 Ibid.
14 D A Welch: ‘Morality and “the National Interest”’ in A Valls (Ed) op cit, pp7-8.
15 Ibid.
16 E H Carr The Twenty Years’ Crisis 1919-1939 (London: Papermac, 1946 (second edition)), p158.
17 Ibid, p159.
18 Ibid, p162.
19 Ibid, p166.
20 Toynbee, Survey of International Affairs, 1936, cited in Carr, op cit, p167.
21 A Hitler, Mein Kampf, cited in Carr, op cit, p167.
22 Tony Blair, Speech to US Congress, 18 July 2003. Published on 10 Downing Street web site:
http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page4220.asp accessed on 19 Jul 03.
23 E H Carr, op cit, p168.
24 Ibid.
25 Nicholas Fotion, op cit, p17.
26 Ibid, p18.
27 A J Coates, op cit, p18.
28 Colin S Gray ‘The RMA and Intervention: A Sceptical View’ in Contemporary Security Policy Vol 22
No 3, December 2001 (London: Frank Cass for University of Birmingham Centre for Studies in Security
and Diplomacy,), pp 59-60.
29 Genghis Khan, cited in Fotion, op cit, p31.
30 William Shakespeare, ‘The Life of Henry the Fifth’ (Act 3, scene i) in The Complete Oxford
Shakespeare (Oxford: OUP, 1987), p347. This passage was first brought to my attention by a review
article in the Daily Telegraph: Adam Nicholson ‘Watch This Henry V Before Going to War’ 24 Jun 03.
31 A Harris, Bomber Offensive (London: Greenhill Books, 1990), p58, cited in A J Coates, op cit, p27.
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