Questioning the Resort to U.S. Hegemonic Military Force
Abstract
This paper seeks to defend the thesis that this American project of military hegemony has a variety of global security costs of such combined magnitude that there is a strong prima facie case against the resort to armed force by the United States, so that its wars might be wrong even when there is a just cause. My thesis is based on the jus ad bellum principle of proportionality.
Suggested Citation
Harry van der Linden. "Questioning the Resort to U.S. Hegemonic Military Force" The Moral Dimension of Asymmetrical Warfare: Counter-terrorism, Democratic Values and Military Ethics. Ed. Th. A. van Baarda and D.E.M. Verweij. Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2009. 31-46.
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/harry_vanderlinden/41