Just and Unjust Wan RevisitedTerry Nardin

As the following papers demonstrate, Michael Walzer’s Just and UnjustWars continues to provoke thought and debate two decades after itspublication.’ The book remains widely taught in college courses and

is cited whenever the morality of war is discussed. It is appropriate, then, tocelebrate the book’s twentieth anniversary by reconsidering its arguments in

the light of what we have learned in the intervening years.The papers were discussed at a symposium hosted by the Carnegie Council

in May 1996 and have been revised to take account of the conversation thatoccurred there. David Hendrickson takes issue with the book’s criticism ofrealism, pointing to realist elements in Walzer’s own argument. TheodoreKoontz provides a careful analysis of some problems in Walzer’s treatment ofthe noncombatant immunity principle. Both papers deal with the tension inWalzer’s book between a morality of rights and a morality of consequences, atension that Joseph Boyle illuminates in his contribution. And in a paperinspired by the symposium debate, Michael Joseph Smith provides an appre-ciation that serves as a readable introduction to the issues considered by theother contributors. Finally, Michael Walzer responds in what, if past is pro-logue, won’t be the last word on the argument of Just and Unjust Wars.

‘ Michael Walzer, ./L@and Unjust War-s(New York: Basic Books, 1977).