Just War
This book by Prof Alexis D. Heraclides* comes at no better time given what takes place around Planet Ocean today; a great recap as we say in Shipping from aspects with issues from antiquity until today.
Being in the Shipping Industry which is affected by Wars, its meaning and importance is paramount!
The book focuses on just war and on humanitarian intervention, both of them controversial themes yesterday as well as today.
The study covers the following:
- International ethics and norms: irrelevant or indispensable? Revisiting a persisting debate.
- The just war doctrine from Antiquity until today, with emphasis on Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine, Aquinas, Vitoria, Gentili, Suarez and Grotius, concluding with Michael Walzer.
- Intervention and the non-intervention norm: an overview from the 18th century until today.
- The roots of humanitarian intervention: just war against tyranny, with emphasis on Vitoria, Gentili, Suarez, Grotius, the monarchomachs, Bodin and Vattel.
- Humanitarian intervention in international law: a hundred years debate (1830-1939).
- Intervention and non-intervention in international political theory during the long 19th century: Kant, Hegel, Cobden,
Mazzini and J.S. Mill. - Humanitarian interventions in the course of the 19th century: the Greek case (1821-1831), the Lebanon-Syria case
(1860-1861) and the Bulgarian case (1876-1878). - Humanitarian intervention cases during the Cold War.
- Humanitarian intervention cases in the post-Cold War era (1990-today).
- The contemporary humanitarian intervention debate: the dilemmas involved; the search for the appropriate reaction
at UN level; and the key issues, according to its advocates, on how to proceed with humanitarian intervention if the need arises.
An excellent publication by I.Sideris
*Alexis Heraclides is since late 2019 emeritus professor of International Relations and Conflict Resolution at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Athens). Previously he was professor in the same university, where he taught from 1993 onwards (and continues to teach despite his retirement).
From 1983 until 1997 he served as counsellor for minorities and humanitarian affairs in the Greek Foreign Ministry.
He has written eight books in English and fifteen in Greek and some 80 papers in academic journals and edited volumes.
Main books in English:
The Self-Determination of Minorities in International Politics (London: Frank Cass, 1991).
Security and Co-operation in Europe: the Human Dimension, 1972-1992 (London: Frank Cass, 1993).
Helsinki-II and its Aftermath: the Making of the CSCE into an International Organization (London: Pinter, 1993).
The Greek-Turkish Conflict in the Aegean: Imagined Enemies (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
with Ada Dialla, Humanitarian Intervention in the Long Nineteenth Century:Setting the Precedent (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015).
Co-editor with Gizem Alioğlu Çakmak, Greece and Turkey in Conflict and Cooperation: From Europeanization to DeEuropeanization (Abingdon: Routledge, 2019).
