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About Bob Brecher

Bob Brecher is an academic at the university of Brighton and founder of the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics. He is the author of Torture and the ticking bomb and Getting what you want: a critique of liberal morality.

Articles by Bob Brecher

Iraq and the fig-leaf of just war theory

Bob Brecher, 8 February 2010
Dissension over the legality of the Iraq war, and the history of western military interventions since 1945, reveals the paucity of international law's moral underpinnings. The article continues our series Lest we forget: remembering historic conflicts, openSecurity’s new editorial project in association with History & Policy, asking historians to reflect on wars gone by and the light they shed on present conflicts.
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