The Iraq War
A Philosophical Analysis
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Political Science and International Relations
Political Science
Political Theory
Bassam La**
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Introduction
The general task of philosophizing war is commonly carried out within specific theoretical structures that standardize the moral assessment of war. Arguing about War is frequently pursued within a moral continuum...
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Concluding Remarks
The catastrophic sequence of global events inaugurating the new millennium— 9/11, the War on Terror, the Afghanistan war, the Iraq war— has significantly shaped our understanding of new wars. The triad of unconve...
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The Question of Just War
The quandary about warfare might initially suggest that workable solutions to the problem of war exist. Throughout the past century, the perpetual drive toward framing the problem of war, and especially its condu...
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The Question of Democracy
A political crusade began to take shape in the early years of the twenty-first century that defended the use of armed conflict to achieve the avowed objective of creating democracy. The crusade accepts a variety ...
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Philosophizing War
The three main wars of the new millennium waged by the United States— the War on Terror and the Afghanistan and Iraq wars— produced fertile ground for philosophical analysis. In the early days of the Iraq war, th...
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The Question of Humanitarian Intervention
In the vast terrain of arguments and debates surrounding the war on Iraq, many ex post facto attempts have been made to defend the invasion by appealing to humanitarian considerations, despite the absence of ad b...
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The Question of Preventive War
Events of the past few decades have consistently worked to modify our conception of international justice, international ethics, political violence, terrorism, and global warfare. The early years of the twenty-fi...
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The Origins of Nation Formation and Nationalism in Europe
According to Pollard, ancient history is essentially that of the city state, and medieval history that of the universal world state. He sees modern history as the history of national states whose most ‘promine...
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The Role of Nationalism and Nation Formation in the Process of Emancipation of the Peoples of the ‘Third World’
The indigenous social structures of ‘Third World’ countries, devastated by colonialism, are now experiencing a comprehensive process of transformation triggered off from outside.1 However the disintegration of th...
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Pan-Arab versus Local Nationalism II: al-Husri’s Critique of Antun Sa‘ada and his Syrian Social Nationalist Party (SSNP)
The Egyptian variety of local nationalism provoked al-Husri’s criticism on two grounds. In the first place, its regional limitation contradicted his own Pan-Arab views, and in the second place, it derived from...
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Pan-Arab versus Local Nationalism I: al-Husri and the Egyptian Nationalists
It has already been shown that Arab nationalism first emerged in Greater Syria, and that it was confined to that part of the Middle East in its early years. It originated among Syro-Lebanese intellectuals, who...
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Postscript: Pan-Arab Nationalism as an Aspect of the Contemporary Politics of Arab States and Political Parties
The significance of Sati‘ al-Husri’s work lies first of all in the fact that it faithfully reflects an important phase in modern Arab history and the political thought which accompanied it, and secondly in tha...
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The Genesis of Arab Nationalism
In the early nineteenth century the social structure of Greater Syria, the birthplace of Arab nationalism, was similar to that of Egypt before the reforms of Muhammad ‘Ali. The system of tax-farming known as ilti...
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The Foundations of Sati‘ al-Husri’s Political Theory
Even in his earliest writings, al-Husri’s main philosophical interests are clear. He takes the Greek myth of Pandora’s box to illustrate the political situation which forms the starting point of his theory. Th...
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Introduction to the Second Edition: Arab Nationalism Revisited
This book is a monograph on Arab nationalism. Since Arab nationalism is not an isolated phenomenon, and because this author wants to explain, rather than simply describe or provide a narrative of, events, the ...
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Social Science Interpretations of Nationalism and of Nation Formation in the ‘Third World’
Kohn has come to the conclusion after years of research that while nationalism at the time of the French Revolution was an expression of aspirations towards individual liberty and democracy, it has developed i...
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The Historical Background of Arab Nationalism
Social change1 in the Middle East may be explained in terms of acculturation theory, to the extent that the archaic-chiliastic and secular-nationalist variants of the literary and political renaissance which took...
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The Origins of al-Husri’s Definition of the Nation
By the end of the Second World War the process of decolonisation of the Arab countries had begun. This produced a number of independent national states which are, in Sulzbach’s terms, administrative nations.1 The...
