Table of Contents
Preface/ Acknowledgements
Introduction: Hell
Chapter 1: Peace as The Original Position
The Original Position
The Right to Make Promises
The Peaceful Village
The Village (2): Enter the Robber Band
The Peace in Daily Life
notes
Chapter 2: The Violent State
The Oxymoronic State
The Magical State
Legitimate Violence: The Hypothesis
Legitimate Violence: The Grand Experiment
The Phenomenon of Violence
The State as Blob
Max Weber and the Evil Moment of the State
notes
Chapter 3: Godlike Violence
Why Gods Can’t be Heroes
Holy War
The Gods vs God
The Innocent Warrior
Chapter 4: Distance and Distance Collapse
The Art of Distancing
Overcoming the Fear of Killing
What Drill Instructors Teach
Together in the Bomb Shelter
Nativity in the War Zone
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
The Enemy Most Dear to You
Heraclesian Syndrome
“Or Has the Blood of Those You’ve Slain Made You Mad?”
notes
Chapter 5: (Just) War is Hell, Part I
“Violence Pushed to its Utmost Bounds”
The Duel
Agincourt: The Duel Writ Large
Rape and Pillage
Hell according to Thomas
“Castles and Girls/We’ll Breach Their Defenses”
notes
Chapter 6: A Container for a Universal Solvent: (Just) War is Hell, Part II
Rules for Justly Initiating Hell: Jus ad Bellum
Rules for Keeping Hell Just and Orderly: Jus in Bello
Rat-a-tat-tat
Bombs Away!
Rules for Just Bombing
Absolute Just War
Chapter 7: The Ecstasy of War?
The Pleasure of Facing Danger
The Pleasure of Looting
Vicarious Pleasure
War as Romance
War as Provider of “Meaning”
War as Historic Spectacle
The Pleasure of Meaninglessness
War as a State of Exception
The Three Phases of War
Thanatopia
notes
Chapter 8: SuperLeviathan: A Peaceful Use of Hell?
The Articles of Confederation Analogy
Planning Perpetual Peace
Peaceful Republics?
Who Will Watch the Watchers?
As If
Peace Proposals After World War I
Peace Through the Plighted Word
The 15 Democracies as SuperLeviathan
“Let Us Precipitate Unification Through Conquest”
Muddling War and Police Action
The United Nations and the Return of the 15 Democracies
Peace With a Nuclear Arsenal
“There Will No Longer Be Any Wars. Then, Only Executions Will Exist”
notes
Chapter 9: SuperLeviathan Now
The United Nations as Sheriff’s Posse
Responsibility to Protect (R2P)
The War Against Terror
Military Action and Police Action: Muddled Again
The Terrorist as a New Legal Category
Creeping Internationalism?
Chapter 10: Japan’s Impossible Constitution
The 1960 AMPO Generation
1982: Constitution as Travelogue
A Constitution as a Seizure of Power
The US Constitution: Seizing Power from the States
The Japanese Constitution: Seizing Power from the Government
Limiting the Power of the Emperor
The Role of the Allied Military Forces
The Role of the People’s Voice
Basking in the Atomic Sunshine
Good Cop, Bad Cop
Notes
Chapter 11: Article 9 Meets Humpty Dumpty
The Reverse Course
Legitimation Through Struggle
The Constitution and its Speaker
Structural Popular Sovereignty
Amendment by Interpretation: Enter Humpty Dumpty
SDF on Peace-Keeping Duty
Secret Japanese Participation in the Korean War
Abe Shinzo’s Final “Interpretation”
Article 9 as US Grand Strategy: Role of Okinawa
“A Person Able to Return the Gaze of the State”
The Citizen
Japanese Constitution as Radical Democracy
The Voiceless Voices
Article 9 as Decadence?
A Conscientious Objector Country?
A Perfect Muddle
notes
Chapter 12: Common Sense Peace
Violence and Power
Gandhi Refuted with a Platitude
Arendt on Non-Violent Resistance
You Can’t Get There from Here
Gandhi and the Founding of the Violent State
Gandhi and Power
Gandhi and the Ethic of Consequences
Non-Violence for the Ordinary People
Gandhi and Constitutions
Non-Cooperation
Inventor of the Self-limiting Revolution
Satyagraha and the Right of Belligerency
Gandhian Constitution for a Free India
Gandhi and the Art of the Possible
Hobbesean War, Radical Peace
The Last Constitution
Founding and Sacrifice
Notes
Chapter 13: Final Rumination
Peace as the Human Thing
The What-If Game
Nothing Always Works
But War is Always Hell, Even If it “Works”
Tragedy and Prophecy
notes
Appendix
Index
