Occupation and the Just War

// International Relations. – Vol.
22. – 2008. – №
3. – P. 299–321Abstract
Just war theorists have had diffi culty assessing the moral character of occupations, since
they often fail to engage with the broader mechanisms and ethical issues of control and
power inherent to that state of confl ict. These challenges, however, cut to the heart of many
of the just war tradition’s assumptions, requiring new conceptualizations of its principles
and rules for appropriate conduct. This article takes a fi rst step in that direction, recasting
the tradition to encompass a wider view of threat and violence in military occupations,
using the Israel–Palestine confl ict as an illustrative case.
Keywords: Israel, just war theory, jus post bellum, occupation, Palestine, West Bank/
Gaza Strip