Michael Walzer is UPS Foundation Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He has written on a wide variety of topics in social and political theory.

The United States in the World – Just Wars and Just Societies:
2003 Interview with Michael Walzer

Q - You’ve been highly critical of the Bush administration’s policy towards Iraq and especially of their attempt to legitimate a doctrine of preventive war. At the same time, you have suggested that European critics of the US administration – especially the French and German governments – have failed to take seriously their own responsibility for the maintenance of a peaceful international order and have undermined international efforts to contain Saddam Hussein. Could you say something about how these criticisms are connected to the account of just war you defend in Just and Unjust Wars? In your view, how should European powers see their international role in a world in which the United States is as militarily dominant as at present Read More…

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