Professor, Department Chair, and Max and Heidi Berry Chair of International Studies in the Department of International and Area Studies. Research areas include international law, international ethics, law and ethics of political violence, human rights, US foreign policy.
What does it mean to say that a particular war is just or unjust, that terrorism is always wrong,... more What does it mean to say that a particular war is just or unjust, that terrorism is always wrong, or that torture can sometimes be morally justified? What are the moral bases for the possession or use of nuclear weapons, intervening in other countries’ civil wars, or being a bystander to genocide? Such questions take us to the heart of what is morally right and wrong behaviour in our world. Global Violence: Ethical and Political Issues provides readers with the analytical tools to better understand the suppositions that underlie the debates about such questions, as well as advances its own reasoned and informed ethical analyses of these topics. The book engages different normative approaches from the fields of ethics, political theory, and international relations and uses them to examine a set of case studies on the subjects of inter-state and civil war, nuclear weapons, terrorism, torture and genocide.
Foreword Joel H. Rosenthal Justice, Sustainability, and Security: An Introduction Eric A. Heinze,... more Foreword Joel H. Rosenthal Justice, Sustainability, and Security: An Introduction Eric A. Heinze, University of Oklahoma PART I: JUSTICE 1. The Hardest Cases of Global Injustice: the Responsibility to Inquire Brooke Ackerly 2. Business and Human Rights: An Insider's Journey with BP and Beyond Christine Bader PART II: SUSTAINABILITY 3. Reflections on 'Actually Existing Sustainability' Timothy W. Luke 4. Beyond Durban: A New Agenda for Climate Ethics Andrew Light PART III: SECURITY 5. Moral Mission Accomplished? Assessing the Landmine Ban Adam Bower and Richard Price 6. The Insecurity of America: The Curious Case of Torture's Escalating Popularity Brent J. Steele Conclusion: Toward a Global Ethics for the 21st Century Eric A. Heinze
This article explores the extent to which the decision to invade Iraq in 2003 coheres with the no... more This article explores the extent to which the decision to invade Iraq in 2003 coheres with the normative precepts of liberalism as an international political theory. Beginning with a Lockean liberal theory of the state, this article first examines the evolution of international liberalism in order to identify the fundamental normative postulates of liberal theory as it pertains to international relations, especially regarding the use of military force. The article then advances two interrelated arguments: First, that the underpinnings of the decision to invade Iraq embodied in the Bush Doctrine draw heavily from the liberal tradition, though still depart from it in important ways. Second, that the Bush Doctrine as manifested in the Iraq war reflects in many ways the liberal thinking that prevailed during the interwar years and is therefore susceptible to a similar charge of ‘utopianism’ that was leveled against interwar liberalism by E. H. Carr in his Twenty Years' Crisis.
... On the eve of what would become Operation Allied Force, US President Bill Clinton stated that... more ... On the eve of what would become Operation Allied Force, US President Bill Clinton stated that ... agreement, and the consent of the state on whose territory the operation takes place. ... including variants of liberalism, realism, the English school and social constructivismwhile also ...
This volume set out to demonstrate that moral concerns and ethiTl arguments can and have affected... more This volume set out to demonstrate that moral concerns and ethiTl arguments can and have affected the behavior of important and powerful actors in contemporary global politics—including states and global corporations—but powerful forces pulling in the opposite direction ensure that the struggle for global ethics must continue. Accordingly, there is much work to be done to reveal and alleviate global injustices, ensure an environmentally sustainable future, and defend human security. Three main questions, collectively addressed by the contributors to this volume, animated this broad claim: How are we to think about global justice in the twenty-first century in light of “unknown” global injustices and the complex social and moral impacts of global corporations? What is the contribution of the sustainability discourse to the ethics and practice of contemporary global environmentalism and how should we move forward toward a new agenda for climate ethics? To what extent is moral progress...
UMI, ProQuest ® Dissertations & Theses. The world's most comprehensive collectio... more UMI, ProQuest ® Dissertations & Theses. The world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. Learn more... ProQuest, 'In extreme cases only': Humanitarian intervention in theory, law and practice. by Heinze ...
International Journal: Canada's Journal of Global Policy Analysis, 2015
Catherine Lu Just and Unjust Interventions in World Politics: Public and Private Basingstoke: Pal... more Catherine Lu Just and Unjust Interventions in World Politics: Public and Private Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011. 239 pp., $31.00 (paper) ISBN: 978-0-230-28565-1The subject of military intervention has always been a prominent feature of normative debates in international relations (IR), and the past decade has been no exception. In the past 10 years there have been so many publications and books about the subject of humanitarian intervention and the corollary idea of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) that it has become increasingly difficult to say much new about it. Catherine Lu's book, however, succeeds in this regard by providing a fresh normative analysis of humanitarian intervention based on the public-private distinction borrowed from feminist political theory. Originally published in 2006, the paperback version of Lu's book, Just and Unjust Interventions in World Politics, was released in 2011 and contains a new Afterword where the author addresses developments since the original publication of the book, most notably, the debate over R2P. The rest of the book, however, remains unchanged from the original edition.This book's central argument is that the debate over "humanitarian" intervention can be illuminated by the public-private distinction as espoused in feminist political theory. In short, the author uses the public-private distinction as analogous to the international-domestic distinction in IR and as a way to illuminate the normative structure of international society more broadly, as well as to probe issues pertaining to the responsibilities of, and the relationships among, different international actors involved in humanitarian intervention. The book also uses this public-private construct as a way to critically examine prevailing normative approaches to the question of intervention and the legitimacy of recent interventionary practices.The book begins with an application of the public-private distinction to IR, with the main insight being essentially that "private" affairs are those which states regard to be internal matters protected from interference from external actors, whereas "public" matters are those which are the legitimate business of the international community. The analogy is thus both intriguing and intuitive. For example, family privacy has historically been a way for domestic abuse to occur unchecked by outside authorities, similar to how state sovereignty has permitted states to commit a variety of injustices toward their own people-such as mass atrocities-largely unchecked by international society. In both cases, we see how there should be clear limits placed upon what actions or policies can be justified as "a private matter," which is to say as part of a state's sovereign prerogative.In the next three chapters the author critically examines prevailing normative approaches to the issue of humanitarian intervention in light of the public-private distinction. This analysis begins in chapter 3 with an examination of realism and ultimately concludes that this approach is incapable of supporting a morally consistent normative position either for or against humanitarian intervention. Chapter 4 is a similarly critical investigation of communitarianism, which fares little better than realism, as the author reveals the inconsistency and inadequacy of communitarian accounts of the public and private lives of states. In chapter 5, however, Lu argues that unlike the realist and communitarian perspectives, a cosmopolitan perspective is capable of generating moral considerations that can provide a morally consistent account of humanitarian intervention that can accommodate and shape the private and public lives of states. …
What does it mean to say that a particular war is just or unjust, that terrorism is always wrong,... more What does it mean to say that a particular war is just or unjust, that terrorism is always wrong, or that torture can sometimes be morally justified? What are the moral bases for the possession or use of nuclear weapons, intervening in other countries’ civil wars, or being a bystander to genocide? Such questions take us to the heart of what is morally right and wrong behaviour in our world. Global Violence: Ethical and Political Issues provides readers with the analytical tools to better understand the suppositions that underlie the debates about such questions, as well as advances its own reasoned and informed ethical analyses of these topics. The book engages different normative approaches from the fields of ethics, political theory, and international relations and uses them to examine a set of case studies on the subjects of inter-state and civil war, nuclear weapons, terrorism, torture and genocide.
Foreword Joel H. Rosenthal Justice, Sustainability, and Security: An Introduction Eric A. Heinze,... more Foreword Joel H. Rosenthal Justice, Sustainability, and Security: An Introduction Eric A. Heinze, University of Oklahoma PART I: JUSTICE 1. The Hardest Cases of Global Injustice: the Responsibility to Inquire Brooke Ackerly 2. Business and Human Rights: An Insider's Journey with BP and Beyond Christine Bader PART II: SUSTAINABILITY 3. Reflections on 'Actually Existing Sustainability' Timothy W. Luke 4. Beyond Durban: A New Agenda for Climate Ethics Andrew Light PART III: SECURITY 5. Moral Mission Accomplished? Assessing the Landmine Ban Adam Bower and Richard Price 6. The Insecurity of America: The Curious Case of Torture's Escalating Popularity Brent J. Steele Conclusion: Toward a Global Ethics for the 21st Century Eric A. Heinze
This article explores the extent to which the decision to invade Iraq in 2003 coheres with the no... more This article explores the extent to which the decision to invade Iraq in 2003 coheres with the normative precepts of liberalism as an international political theory. Beginning with a Lockean liberal theory of the state, this article first examines the evolution of international liberalism in order to identify the fundamental normative postulates of liberal theory as it pertains to international relations, especially regarding the use of military force. The article then advances two interrelated arguments: First, that the underpinnings of the decision to invade Iraq embodied in the Bush Doctrine draw heavily from the liberal tradition, though still depart from it in important ways. Second, that the Bush Doctrine as manifested in the Iraq war reflects in many ways the liberal thinking that prevailed during the interwar years and is therefore susceptible to a similar charge of ‘utopianism’ that was leveled against interwar liberalism by E. H. Carr in his Twenty Years' Crisis.
... On the eve of what would become Operation Allied Force, US President Bill Clinton stated that... more ... On the eve of what would become Operation Allied Force, US President Bill Clinton stated that ... agreement, and the consent of the state on whose territory the operation takes place. ... including variants of liberalism, realism, the English school and social constructivismwhile also ...
This volume set out to demonstrate that moral concerns and ethiTl arguments can and have affected... more This volume set out to demonstrate that moral concerns and ethiTl arguments can and have affected the behavior of important and powerful actors in contemporary global politics—including states and global corporations—but powerful forces pulling in the opposite direction ensure that the struggle for global ethics must continue. Accordingly, there is much work to be done to reveal and alleviate global injustices, ensure an environmentally sustainable future, and defend human security. Three main questions, collectively addressed by the contributors to this volume, animated this broad claim: How are we to think about global justice in the twenty-first century in light of “unknown” global injustices and the complex social and moral impacts of global corporations? What is the contribution of the sustainability discourse to the ethics and practice of contemporary global environmentalism and how should we move forward toward a new agenda for climate ethics? To what extent is moral progress...
UMI, ProQuest ® Dissertations & Theses. The world's most comprehensive collectio... more UMI, ProQuest ® Dissertations & Theses. The world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. Learn more... ProQuest, 'In extreme cases only': Humanitarian intervention in theory, law and practice. by Heinze ...
International Journal: Canada's Journal of Global Policy Analysis, 2015
Catherine Lu Just and Unjust Interventions in World Politics: Public and Private Basingstoke: Pal... more Catherine Lu Just and Unjust Interventions in World Politics: Public and Private Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011. 239 pp., $31.00 (paper) ISBN: 978-0-230-28565-1The subject of military intervention has always been a prominent feature of normative debates in international relations (IR), and the past decade has been no exception. In the past 10 years there have been so many publications and books about the subject of humanitarian intervention and the corollary idea of Responsibility to Protect (R2P) that it has become increasingly difficult to say much new about it. Catherine Lu's book, however, succeeds in this regard by providing a fresh normative analysis of humanitarian intervention based on the public-private distinction borrowed from feminist political theory. Originally published in 2006, the paperback version of Lu's book, Just and Unjust Interventions in World Politics, was released in 2011 and contains a new Afterword where the author addresses developments since the original publication of the book, most notably, the debate over R2P. The rest of the book, however, remains unchanged from the original edition.This book's central argument is that the debate over "humanitarian" intervention can be illuminated by the public-private distinction as espoused in feminist political theory. In short, the author uses the public-private distinction as analogous to the international-domestic distinction in IR and as a way to illuminate the normative structure of international society more broadly, as well as to probe issues pertaining to the responsibilities of, and the relationships among, different international actors involved in humanitarian intervention. The book also uses this public-private construct as a way to critically examine prevailing normative approaches to the question of intervention and the legitimacy of recent interventionary practices.The book begins with an application of the public-private distinction to IR, with the main insight being essentially that "private" affairs are those which states regard to be internal matters protected from interference from external actors, whereas "public" matters are those which are the legitimate business of the international community. The analogy is thus both intriguing and intuitive. For example, family privacy has historically been a way for domestic abuse to occur unchecked by outside authorities, similar to how state sovereignty has permitted states to commit a variety of injustices toward their own people-such as mass atrocities-largely unchecked by international society. In both cases, we see how there should be clear limits placed upon what actions or policies can be justified as "a private matter," which is to say as part of a state's sovereign prerogative.In the next three chapters the author critically examines prevailing normative approaches to the issue of humanitarian intervention in light of the public-private distinction. This analysis begins in chapter 3 with an examination of realism and ultimately concludes that this approach is incapable of supporting a morally consistent normative position either for or against humanitarian intervention. Chapter 4 is a similarly critical investigation of communitarianism, which fares little better than realism, as the author reveals the inconsistency and inadequacy of communitarian accounts of the public and private lives of states. In chapter 5, however, Lu argues that unlike the realist and communitarian perspectives, a cosmopolitan perspective is capable of generating moral considerations that can provide a morally consistent account of humanitarian intervention that can accommodate and shape the private and public lives of states. …
What does it mean to say that a particular war is just or unjust, that terrorism is always wrong,... more What does it mean to say that a particular war is just or unjust, that terrorism is always wrong, or that torture can sometimes be morally justified? What are the moral bases for the possession or use of nuclear weapons, intervening in other countries’ civil wars, or being a bystander to genocide? Such questions take us to the heart of what is morally right and wrong behaviour in our world. Global Violence: Ethical and Political Issues provides readers with the analytical tools to better understand the suppositions that underlie the debates about such questions, as well as advances its own reasoned and informed ethical analyses of these topics. The book engages different normative approaches from the fields of ethics, political theory, and international relations and uses them to examine a set of case studies on the subjects of inter-state and civil war, nuclear weapons, terrorism, torture and genocide.
In this interdisciplinary volume, Heinze and a diverse group of senior scholars explore global et... more In this interdisciplinary volume, Heinze and a diverse group of senior scholars explore global ethics through sustainability, justice, and security. They address topics within these categories based on recent world events (BP oil spill, 'War on Terror', UN Climate Conference, for example) with an eye toward reconciling the interests of states and other global power-holders with those of individual human beings and global society as a whole. Using a variety of techniques and approaches, including applied ethics, constructivist social science, normative political theory, and field research and narrative approaches, Justice, Sustainability, and Security not only enhances our knowledge of these issues, but it teases out their moral dimensions and offers prescriptions for how governments and global actors might craft their policies to better consider their effects on the global human condition. The volume thus seeks to illustrate the interplay between the 'theory' and 'practice' of global ethics.
Using military force for the purpose of halting or averting the gross abuse of people in other co... more Using military force for the purpose of halting or averting the gross abuse of people in other countries inevitably raises ethical, legal, and political concerns that often conflict with one another. While humanitarian intervention may be widely perceived to be morally desirable in certain situations, it does not always follow that it is legally permissible or even politically possible. This book seeks to bridge the gap among the ethical, legal, and political dimensions of humanitarian intervention by developing a sequence of unifying theoretical prescriptions that are derived from an explicitly consequentialist analytical framework. Drawing from a consequentialist logic that posits the suffering of innocent people as the referent object of concern, this book identifies the conditions under which humanitarian intervention is morally permissible, establishes the extent to which such a moral argument can be grounded in international law, and determines which actors are best equipped to undertake this task under prevailing political realities. The result is a more theoretically consistent—and therefore more practically workable—approach to the perplexing issue of humanitarian intervention.
This volume addresses the ethics of war in an era when non-state actors are playing an increasing... more This volume addresses the ethics of war in an era when non-state actors are playing an increasingly prominent role in armed conflict. Central to this concern is the issue of whether, or under what conditions, non-state actors can be said to have the 'authority' to participate in war. The contributors therefore explore and analyze the problems with, and possibilities for, incorporating non-state actors into the traditionally state-centric moral vocabulary about war—namely, the just war tradition.
... In an outline of US policy for the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan in October 2001 and... more ... In an outline of US policy for the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan in October 2001 and in the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 to remove Saddam Hussein, Pres-ident George W. Bush declared that the United States would spend whatev-er resources are necessary to win ...
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Global Violence: Ethical and Political Issues provides readers with the analytical tools to better understand the suppositions that underlie the debates about such questions, as well as advances its own reasoned and informed ethical analyses of these topics. The book engages different normative approaches from the fields of ethics, political theory, and international relations and uses them to examine a set of case studies on the subjects of inter-state and civil war, nuclear weapons, terrorism, torture and genocide.