All's Not Fair in War: How Kant's Just War Theory Refutes War Realism

Public Affairs Quarterly 16 (2):143-154 (2002)
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I argue that Kant identifies the only principle that refutes war realism, or the view that warring nations should do whatever they can to win the war as quickly as possible. According to Kant, warring nations must follow principles that preserve the possibility of entering a peaceful condition, and the peaceful condition is not merely an end to hositilities.

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