CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2024
| Author | Sokolovska, Dorota |
|---|---|
| Title | Some Clausewitzian Answers for the Just War Theory |
| Summary | Recognising the destructive impact of war on the totality of human experience, political theory has conventionally approached the question of its normativity through the long-standing tradition of just war thinking. Contemporary just war theory is an expanding and theoretically rich field, yet it faces diverse criticisms regarding its being too distant from the actual military practice. This work directly addresses this problem by the Clausewitzian perspective of war into the framework of just war theory in a twofold manner – first, by deriving methodological implications for thinking about war; and second, by providing fresh arguments supporting the traditionalist stance vis-à-vis revisionist.The work defends the following thesis: by plugging the Clausewitzian perspective of war into the just war theory, its methodological approaches as well as substantial debates can be productively redeveloped. Clausewitz’s trinitarian model of war is employed to derive a comprehensive methodology of just war thinking, while his discussion of defensive war being ipso facto both proportionate and necessary is explored to contribute to contemporary just war debates. Despite considerable differences – namely, operating with the frameworks of instrumental rationality and normativity – Clausewitzian theory of war and modern just war theory can be seen as sharing the common goal of limiting some wars while allowing others |
| Supervisor | Andres Moles |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2024/sokolovska_dorota.pdf |
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