| Special Workshop Title: | Politics of Human Rights - Special Session on Rawls |
| Author: |
Alyssa Rose Bernstein |
| Paper Title: | Democratization as a Humanitarian Aim of War: Just War Theory and the Law of Peoples |
| Abstract: |
In
this paper I argue that democratization is not a morally justifiable war
aim except in a narrow category of cases; I consider whether
democratization may be considered a humanitarian war aim in such cases;
and I discuss the considerations that should be taken into account when
a government deliberates about whether to wage war for humanitarian
reasons. My argument draws upon both just war theory and John Rawls’s
political liberalism, in particular his book, The Law of Peoples
(Harvard University Press, 1999).
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