СПРАВЕДЛИВОТО НАСИЛИЕ ИЛИ КРИТИКА НА ЛЕГИТИМАЦИЯТА НА ВОЙНАТА
THE JUST VIOLENCE, OR A CRITIQUE OF THE LEGITIMIZATION OF WAR

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses arguments used in international relations theory, regarding the legitimacy of war. When discussing just war, theorists refer to the jus bellum - the traditional right of the states to use military force in order to restore justice and to reach recompense for the inflicted losses. This approach conceives the justice of war as conformity of the presumed culpability of one of the protagonists and the recognized rights of the other protagonist. During the Cold War, in the age of the nuclear weapons, many theorists added to this prerequisite of the just war another one - the jus in bello, trying to establish link between justice and presumed appropriate means to reach it. After the end of the Cold War during many armed conflicts and international wars, usually conceived as being some kind of police intervention, a third criterion for the just war appeared - the jus post bellum. This approach treats the conformity between the established post-war order, on one hand, and the goals and the shared values of the state that uses military force, on the other. This argument became the most important criterion for accepting the war as an instrument, however dangerous and limited, for restoring justice.

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