Analysis Of The Arguments For And Against The War In Iraq In 2003 In Light Of Just War Principles
Analysis Of The Arguments For And Against The War In Iraq In 2003 In Light Of Just War Principles

Summary/Abstract: International public opinion, academic community and political elite, have divided, after the beginning of U.S. led multinational forces’ invasion on Iraq, between the advocates of validity and necessity of war, and the opponents of the ongoing military intervention in Iraq. Olga Mitrović’s paper makes a contribution to the debate within the academic community on the rights of the USA to preventive war and intervention in Iraq. The author has compared the pro-war arguments given by the neoconservative movement, which has had a major influence on the administration of then-president George W. Bush, to the premises of just war theorists, with the intention to clearly determine the similarities and differences of these two approaches and to explore whether the military intervention in Iraq can be justified by the just war theory

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