I believe that a state has the right to wage war only to defend those living with in its boarders from attack. A state’s authority to use coercion to uphold justice is limited to its borders. Just as a state has no right to prosecute a person for committing a crime committed outside NZ or to make laws regulating peoples behaviour beyond its shores, it has no duty to defend people in other countries.
Entries Tagged as 'Fiji'
Sanctions and Siege Warfare
December 14th, 2006 6 Comments
Tags: Fiji · Helen Clark · Role of the State · War Ethics
Democracy and Legitimacy
December 5th, 2006 Comments Off on Democracy and Legitimacy
The founding statement of liberal political theory, John Locke’s Two Treaties of Civil Government, opens with the following statement: Reader, thou hast here the beginning and end of a discourse concerning government; what fate has otherwise disposed of the papers that should have filled up the middle, and were more than all the rest, it […]
Tags: Declaration of Independence · Fiji · John Locke · Liberty · Role of the State · War Ethics
Only in Fiji…
December 2nd, 2006 Comments Off on Only in Fiji…
It seems the coup in Fiji has been delayed by a rugby match … only in Fiji! Bainimarama has put the coup so he could watch a game of rugby between Police and the Army – couldn’t let a coup get in the way of that! So the coup has been put on hold to […]
Tags: Bainimarama · Fiji · Rugby