Reading: Peace
Andrew Fitz-Gibbon
1. Summarize Fitz-Gibbon's account of the history of nonviolence.
2. How does Fitz-Gibbon describe the difference between comprehensive approaches to nonviolence and less selective approaches?
3. What are the three main types of pacifism that Fitz-Gibbon discusses?
Reading: The Triumph of Just War Theory (and the Dangers of Success)
Michael Walzer
1. What role did "the national interest" play in the new realism of the 1950s and 1960s, according to Walzer?
2. According to Walzer, in what way has moral theory about just war triumphed?
3. What two responses to this position does Walzer describe, and what are his criticisms of each?