Space, scale and just war : meeting the challenge of humanitarian intervention and trans-national terrorism /
John Williams
- 2008
The article proceeds in four stages. The first outlines the triumph of just war. second looks intially of just war as an example of someone who has tried to develop a global approach to thinking ethically about violence. The third section using political geography's critique of wesphalian territorial thinking to pick out some of the key challenges that just war theory faces. The last article aims to establish an agenda of issues where a less territorially rigid approach wihin just war teory can pay dividens in enabling more effective ethical analysis of an engagement with key issues in the contemporary ethics of violence.