Browsing by Author "McKeogh, Colm"

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Are the citizens of a democracy a just target for terrorists?

McKeogh, Colm (Routledge, 2011)

This article investigates how issues of political responsibility connect to the combatant/civilian distinction in armed conflict. It does so by looking at an attempted moral justification of terrorism in a democracy by a ...
Reinhold Niebuhr’s Christian realism/ Christian idealism

McKeogh, Colm (Louisiana State University Press, 2007)

The foregoing quip captures a realization that came to the young Reinhold Niebuhr in the 192os and that turned the liberal Christian pastor away from pacifism and toward a more realist ethic of politics. From then until ...