AFGHANISTAN AND THE UKRAINE: JUS POST BELLUM AND WAR CLOSURE IN THE 21ST CENTURY

The 21st century finds the international community embroiled in various stages of warfare in numerous locations using a vast array of weapons and strategies and fighting for multiple reasons. From Afghanistan to the Ukraine, Iraq to Yemen, Syria to the Persian Gulf, men and women find themselves sha...

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Published inSeton Hall Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 7 - 18
Main Author O'Meara, Richard M
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published South Orange Seton Hall University 01.04.2022
Subjects
21st century
Closure
Death & dying
Humanitarian intervention
Humanitarianism
International law
International relations
Ownership
Pacifism
Peace
Self defense
Statehood
Trade restrictions
Violence
War
Afghanistan
Ukraine
Iraq
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Summary:The 21st century finds the international community embroiled in various stages of warfare in numerous locations using a vast array of weapons and strategies and fighting for multiple reasons. From Afghanistan to the Ukraine, Iraq to Yemen, Syria to the Persian Gulf, men and women find themselves sharpening bayonets, fueling planes, guarding borders, mistreating civilians, and otherwise taking steps necessary to visit death and mayhem on their enemies. This, of course, is nothing new. Mankind has been about the conduct of war for at least the 10,000 years they have contested one against the other for ownership of those things which they prize. Yet, if Afghanistan and Ukraine teach us anything it is that the beginning and end of war are just as important as how they conduct themselves on the battlefield. War is tough stuff. It is, at the very least, the organized projection of death and mayhem by some group against another, generally for purposes of governance. Its justifications are myriad running the gamut from self-defense to humanitarian intervention, to national aggrandizement to whim and revenge.