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Restorative Post Bellum Integration

Renfro, Zachariah M
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1765-3927
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1564668493624408

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2019, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, Philosophy (Arts and Sciences).
In this thesis I argue that there are post bellum situations in which it is morally permissible to remove sovereignty from a vanquished nation by integrating its people and territory into an existing state. The relevant situations are those in which there are desperate human rights claims which must be satisfied and the removal of sovereignty is the only feasible alternative that protects human rights. I call the approach to such situations outlined herein “Restorative Post Bellum Integration (RPBI),” and argue that this solution is consistent with Brian Orend’s Kantian Internationalist framework. The format of my argument is the following: P1) States rights are derivative from and subordinate to human rights. P2) Some post bellum situations are such that a) the vanquished nation (or vestiges thereof) affords no reasonable prospect of becoming an independent nation that will respect or ensure the human rights of its citizens and b) the most promising way to uphold the human rights of the people of the vanquished nation is by integrating them and the territory they inhabit into another nation (RPBI). From P1) and P2), C3) In the post bellum situations outlined in P2, RPBI is morally permissible. This topic is of crucial importance due to emerging conditions, such as drastic climate change and increased sectarianism, which may bring decades of war, strife, and mass migration. The framework presented in this thesis offers a methodology for dealing with those hardest of cases, in which significantly prolonged conflict may be the only alternative to the absorption of an outlaw state by a well-ordered state.
James Petrik (Advisor)
James Petrik (Committee Chair)
Christoph Hanisch (Committee Member)
John Bender (Committee Member)
81 p.
Ethics; Peace Studies; Philosophy; Political Science
Just War Theory; Brian Orend; Orend; Jus Post Bellum; Integration; RPBI; Restorative Post Bellum Integration; Post Bellum; Occupation; Rehabilitation; conquest; subjugation; human rights; states rights; imperialism

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  • Renfro, Z. M. (2019). Restorative Post Bellum Integration [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1564668493624408

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Renfro, Zachariah. Restorative Post Bellum Integration. 2019. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1564668493624408.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Renfro, Zachariah. "Restorative Post Bellum Integration." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1564668493624408

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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