http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/just-war Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:39:12 -0400 Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:39:12 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/648/whats-wrong-with-just-war-theory-examining-the-gendered-bias-of-a-longstanding-tradition By Jiri Krcek - The project of just war theory has enjoyed a long and distinguished pedigree, dating back to the ancient Greco-Roman philosophy. Over the centuries, it has, however, commanded a substantial influence from Christianity, enlightenment philosophy, and western secular academia. As a result, the tradition evolved into a myriad of separate branches, which differ in their substantive contents, yet use the same language to express their evaluations. Beside their conceptual divergence, all of the adaptations of just war theories share one identical feature: they are all interpretations of male-derived... Mon, 28 May 2012 08:05 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/648/whats-wrong-with-just-war-theory-examining-the-gendered-bias-of-a-longstanding-tradition http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1217/when-should-the-us-intervene-criteria-for-military-intervention-in-weak-countries By Robert Keohane - The first question is: what is a weak country? What do I mean by saying, “intervening in weak countries?” A weak country is a country not capable of preventing a United States invasion, where we can successfully at least take over key cities. So we are not talking about China or Russia, we are not talking about Brazil, or South Africa. This does not rule out the possibility, of course, that weak countries can use violence to inflict high costs on the United States. In earlier generations, Vietnam was a weak country. The United States, in a sense, intervened in Vietnam. The Vietnamese... Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:00 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1217/when-should-the-us-intervene-criteria-for-military-intervention-in-weak-countries http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1697/defining-armed-conflict-in-international-humanitarian-law By Gertrude C. Chelimo - International humanitarian law does make it clear what an international armed conflict is. According to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, common article 2 states that “all cases of declared war or of any armed conflict that may arise between two or more high contracting parties, even if the state of war is not recognized, the convention shall also apply to all cases of partial or total occupation of the territory of a high contracting party even if the said occupation meets with no armed resistance'' (Geneva Convention, 1949, common art.2). This means that the occurrence of international armed... Fri, 08 Apr 2011 10:23 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1697/defining-armed-conflict-in-international-humanitarian-law