Just War Theory

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Term Paper Title	Just War Theory
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Just War Theory

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Social Issues

[Paper Title]:

Just War Theory: NATO Action Against Serbia

[Text]:

Just War Theory: NATO Action Against Serbia

Years of aggressive European empires have left the area known as the Balkans
in an almost constant flux. The nation of Yugoslavia, originated in 1918, first
became stable under the leadership of Dictator Josip Broz Tito who turned the
nation to communism in 1945. However, with Tito’s death in 1980, the country
dissolved into several smaller countries. Presently the former state of
Yugoslavia is comprised of the nations Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia. Within Serbia lies a region called Kosovo, an
area where over ninety percent of the citizens are ethnic Albanians.

Kosovo’s opposition to Serbian control of their region climaxed in January
1998, when a group known as the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) manifested its
plans to unify Kosovo with the neighboring nation Albania. In response, the
present Yugoslav President, Slobodan Milosevic, ordered Serbian forces to police
the area. Within a short time, the Serbian forces also began to ethnically
cleanse Kosovo of all non-Serbs. The civil war escalated into an international
conflict in March 1999 when the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
intervened by bombing Serbian targets.

According to the most basic tenets of just war doctrine, NATO’s
militaristic intervention with Serbia in the NATO Yugoslav War seems to be
appropriate. NATO’s actions appear to follow the principles of jus ad bellum
as well as jus in bella. Their goal also seems in accordance with other
documents of sustaining peace, such as the Charter of the United Nations.
However, a more detailed analysis might suggest otherwise: NATO’s intervention
was not justifiable in account that the war was more for Western interests than
ending the ethical genocide of the non-Serbs in Kosovo.

In the extreme realistic view of war, or “all’s fair” view, any action
is justifiable if it protects or advances the interests of the state acting.
This ideology strives on two tenets: “(1) that any act in war is justifiable
if it seems to serve the national interest, and (2) that rightness depends
solely on the ends sought rather than on methods used to obtain those ends.”
The realistic view also follows utilitarian reasoning, which states “behavior
is ethical if it brings the greatest good to the greatest number.” In this
perspective, NATO’s interaction was mo...

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