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Cosmopolitan Justice and Criminal States

Pasternak, A; (2019) Cosmopolitan Justice and Criminal States. Journal of Applied Philosophy , 36 (3) pp. 366-374. 10.1111/japp.12310. Green open access

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Abstract

Cécile Fabre's monumental work Cosmopolitan Peace offers a thorough investigation of the responsibilities that agents incur through their involvement in armed conflict. However, her analysis fails to acknowledge the central role that states play in initiating and orchestrating acts of war. I argue that states are corporate moral agents, who are morally responsible for their own wrongdoings during an unjust war, and that this argument is compatible with Fabre's cosmopolitan premises. I then suggest that a systematic account of criminal liability in the aftermath of a war should acknowledge the role that states play in orchestrating wars and committing war crimes.

Type: Article
Title: Cosmopolitan Justice and Criminal States
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1111/japp.12310
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12310
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Political Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10046254
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