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 





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