Redistributive War: Is Global Poverty a Just Cause for War?

When is morally right to go to war? This is the question that frames just war theory and has recently been applied by philosophers, like Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen and Cecile Fabre, to global inequality. But is this sound reasoning? This video unpacks the claim that global poverty is a just cause for war by examining aggression and self-defence. Remember to “Like, Subscribe, and Share”! Want to know more? There is a lot more in the book: Twitter: My Webzone: Reading List Gwilym David Blunt, Global Poverty, Injustice, and Resistance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019) Yitzhak Benbaji, ‘Distributive Justice, Human Rights, and Territorial Integrity: A Contractarian Account of the Crime of Aggression’, in The Morality of Defensive War, ed. Cécile Fabre and Seth Lazar (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014) Cécile Fabre, Cosmopolitan War (Oxford: Oxford Univ