IngentaConnect Governance by universal justice or serial warfare?

Author: Paul Nicholas Anderson

Source: The International Journal of Human Rights, Volume 7, Number 4, October 2004 , pp. 143-154(12)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:

This article re-evaluates the UK government's 'moral' case for war with Iraq with a view to identifying a more pressing issue, which the moral case obscures, in order to clarify, first, why this issue - namely, the denial of equity and international justice primarily for reasons of wealth accumulation - generates resentment and terrorism, and second, how the pursuit of wealth in this manner is, as the United States is witnessing, producing enemies that it cannot defeat. In this light, it follows that respect for international justice and the expansion of minimum rights and liberties everywhere and for everyone that wealth generation involves becomes an argument for mutual security. Among the possible means to this end, particular attention is paid to the development of rights-compatible energy sources (which power the production of wealth), the replacement of those international financial institutions which promote prosperity by just means, and the equalization of the legal standing of governments.

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