Legal and Moral Problems of International Violence - ZHSS8404


	Faculty: UNSW@ADFA (Australian Defence Force Academy)
	School: School of Humanities and Social Sciences @ ADFA
	Course Outline: https://gateway.unsw.adfa.edu.au/isas/current_students/outlines/index.html
	Campus: University College Campus
	Career: Postgraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
	Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
	Equivalent: APOL7311
	CSS Contribution Charge:Band 1 (more info)
	Tuition Fee:See Tuition Fee Schedule
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

Most states, most of the time, seek to justify their use of violence against other states, using both legal and moral arguments. The course first examines the much-disputed relationship between law, morality and politics. It then explores topics such as: just war and self-defence; armed intervention with other states (from assassination to humanitarian intervention); laws of armed conflict; terrorists, irregulars and mercenaries; regulation of weapons of war; use of force by the United Nations; and enforcement of law by international courts. The course also asks whether individuals, civilian and military, can conscientiously object to violence by their state.