Explain the importance of one of Clausewitz’s concepts with respect to his theory of war.

Walzer, Michael, Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations, 4th ed.
(New York: Basic Books, 2006). This the required text

1. In what ways does the 30 Years War mark both a continuation of and a break with the just war tradition?
2. Explain one of Walzer’s objections to realism concerning the morality of war.
3. Explain the importance of one of Clausewitz’s concepts with respect to his theory of war.
4. Explain the relation between consent and tyranny in Walzer’s discussion of the crime of war.
5. Explain one of Walzer’s revisions to the just cause requirement of just war theory.
6. What role does the “domestic analogy” play in Walzer’s theory of the rights of a political community?
7. What does Walzer mean by “the legalist paradigm” and what does this idea assume?
8. Explain one of the principles of international humanitarian law.
9. Why is the Caroline incident important to our understanding of the concept of self defence?
10. Explain the relationship between self-determination and self-help in Walzer consideration of interventions.
11. Explain the difference between Walzer’s view of the jus post bellum and the traditional view.
12. Why is the principle of double effect such a central modification to the war convention?
13. Why does Walzer believe that a “code of honor” is “a more difficult question” with respect to terrorism?
14. Why is the doctrine of “supreme emergency” such a departure from Walzer’s just war theory?
15. How are the Yamashita and Median cases different with respect to the principle of command responsibility?

CHAPTERS OF THE BOOK
1 Against Realism
2 The Crime and Rules of War
3 National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
4 Law and Order in International Society
5 Anticipations
6 Interventions
7 War’s Ends, and the Importance of Winning
8 The War Convention
9 Guerrilla War
10 Terrorism
1 1Supreme Emergency

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