Armed and deadly

Paul Helm  |  Reviews
Date posted:  1 Oct 2011
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MORALITY AND WAR.
Can war be just in the 21st century?
By Dr. David Fisher. Oxford University Press. 303 pages. £25.00
ISBN 978 0 199 599 240

There are two problem areas in addressing the question of the morality of war: assessing it morally, which means dispassionately; and conducting war within a recognisably moral framework.

One has to do with human reflection, the other with war itself. The problems are difficult, obviously, for war occurs when any semblance of principled conduct between nations, as expressed in normal diplomatic relations, and trade and travel, within a ‘balance of power’, breaks down.

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