Just War and the War on Terror
Document Type
Event
Publication Date
10-14-2004
Abstract
For months, the candidates for president of the United States have pushed back and forth over the appropriate role of the United Nations and the international community as a whole, in the current conflict in Iraq. The election may well hinge on how voters respond to each man's argument. One of the nation's most prominent international scholars, Professor Ruth Wedgwood of Johns Hopkins University, frames the question differently. As she sees it, the question is more fundamental. Can the U.N., with its carefully promulgated rules about when and under what circumstances military solutions are permissible, even cope with what's really happening in the world today?
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Recommended Citation
Wedgwood, Ruth, "Just War and the War on Terror" (2004). Saint Pope John XXIII Lecture Series. 9.
https://scholarship.law.edu/johnxxiii_lectures/9
